Darwin AwardsBluffboy says: My mate cheated death and burned his eyebrows off looking down the barrel of a potato gun. Tell us about your brushes with the Grim Reaper through stupidity.
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Is itPotassium permanganate and glycerol, by any chance? Works wonders, that does.
(, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 12:54, 1 reply)
NahTis iron oxide and aluminium, usually ignited with magnesium ribbon as it needs a VERY high temperature to ignite.
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I think that they were referring to the chemical lighterrather than the thermite reaction itself.
(, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 13:43, closed)
yeptis powdered rust amd aluminium, mixed nicely and catalysed by a high temp fuse such as magnesium ribbon. will burn through just about anything.
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