• seathru@quokk.au
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    As a dumbass kid, I lit my grandmas oxygen tube on fire. It was wild; oxidizers are no joke.

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        It wasn’t that bad. It was more like a 40 foot long, angry firework fuse. I was able to eventually stomp it out before my childhood took a drastic turn for the worse. It was one of the things that piqued my interest in physics/chemistry.

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          If the flame reached the tank, there wouldn’t have been an immediate explosion, no fuel, but the oxygen getting everywhere could have gotten your house much closer to burnt down.

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            21 hours ago

            I more meant the jet powered flaming snake flipping around on the floor setting the place on fire. We didn’t believe in fire retardants back then.

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      I’d love to know what you are actually trying to achieve.

      Hey Grandma want to get blown up, it’s the hot new trend.

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        I was a smart stupid kid, and a bit of a pyro. I had figured out putting oxygen on a fire made it bigger but I didn’t have a concept of an oxidizer, I thought it was a fuel like propane/butane. So I cranked up the oxygen bottle and put a lighter to the end of the tube thinking it would make a little blow torch. It did, but not in the way I was expecting.