China explosion - language NSFW
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I would be OK with it if some of my tax dollars went toward PSA's telling people to always film in landscape mode.
I'm no chemist either but I do know that calcium carbide is what went in old miner's lights. I've heard from older people that it was available in every hardware store before flashlights and batteries replaced it. I was also told about "fishing with carbide" - kids would save up the smaller pieces, put them in a glass jar with some water and rocks, toss it in a stream, and wait for the jar to explode from the pressure. Afterwards all the fish would float up.
Apparently that's how acetylene is produced. I'm not even sure the carbide had to be heated.
I work with a couple of guys that worked at a carbide plant previously, and they would talk about fires starting there on loose carbide when it was just a humid day. Small fires
Yea, and like I'd find something else to do. They say it doesn't mix with water, causes it to heat up.
If you shoot video in portrait mode, I have no problem with you dying in a chemical explosion.
Supposedly, at high temperatures calcium carbide does not produce acetylene. It produces calcium carbonate, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen gas.
What is the high temperature? How much hydrogen gas?
What is the high temperature? How much hydrogen gas?
the few articles I've found have said little about the cause. The assertion that the calcium carbine was heated prior to being sprayed with water is stated throughout (produced acetylene). Maybe it's sort of like zirconium cladding surrounding fuel rods being the biggest concern for loss of coolant in a nuclear reactor. The zirc is a beautiful hydrogen generator.
Carbide does not have to be heated to produce acetylene when mixed with water. Will happen at room temps.