Re: Explosive decompression - how fast?

"Brian Davis" <brdavis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Apr 28, 10:46 am, Michael Ash <m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > My understanding is that pure oxygen at a reasonable
> > breathable pressure is essentially the same fire hazard
> > as the standard atmosphere.
>
> It's not. Not even close. the fact that 80% of the gas running through
> a flame does nothing more than warm up (does not contribute energy to
> the process) keeps a flame in a "normal" atmosphere significantly
> cooler. If all you have is low-pressure pure O2 for an atmosphere,
> there's nothing to dilute that heat flux.

Yes, this is a point Marshall Savage got wrong in his "The Millennial 
Project" book.  He said that his low-pressure/high-O2-percentage
atmosphere 
would be less of a fire hazard, when it would be somewhat more for the 
reason you give.

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Mike Combs
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