LOX (LO2) (liquid oxygen) Safety Warning

[freerunner77]

i'm sorry my friend you are wrong about the rocket fuel thing this video was made for the navy we use lox to provide oxygen aircrew. it will explode on contact with any hydrocarbon and has an expansion rate of 862 to 1. you should study a bit more about a subject before you try to teach other people.

[ATFSCrash]

Freerunner77:  On the contrary; it is you that is wrong. LOX is used as a rocket fuel. You should study more before you try to criticize others; thusly you could save yourself from making a fool of yourself kid. LOX is one of the most common rocket fuels for spacecraft. If I remember correctly NASA is a larger customer of LOX, than the military. The military mainly only uses LOX for environmental control.

Take your foolish ad hominem confabulatory/out of context arguments elsewhere.

[Treblaine]

I love his line, "you'll smell bad for weeks... of burned flesh"

It's melodramatic, but I know I'll remember it next time I handle dangerous chemicals.

[Racer1505]

Any one remember the pizza face lox training video??? I can't remember what the name of it is, but i remember watching it in Tech school.

[thesouthparkguy]

A few mistakes you made.

Liquid Oxygen isn't a fuel, it's an oxidizer.

and

I think you meant "take it for granted" not "granite".

[ATFSCrash]

Oxygen is classified as a fuel. Oxidizers are a subcategory of fuel. Such as a two part fuels.

"Fuel is any material that is burnt or altered in order to obtain energy"

Thanks for your correction of my typo (voice to text malapropism).

[ATFSCrash]

Oxygen is classified as a fuel. Oxidizers are a subcategory of fuel. Such as a two part fuels.

"Fuel is any material that is burnt or altered in order to obtain energy"

Thanks for your correction of my typo (voice to text malapropism).

[koolkat0514]

lol big boom yay

[JephN]

look for some old footage of "the man from LOX". its no longer shown, because its not politically correct, but it used to be a training video in the navy. hammer + LO2 + spark = impaled skull

[DeskFlyer]

BOOM! Headshot!

[panetrain]

LOX + petroleum product = boom

Fun stuff! :D

[Fauble2000]

That's not liquid ozygen. You can't smell liquid oxygen as he said. and oxygen doesn't explode like that.

[ATFSCrash]

It is liquid oxygen. When he says you can smell like burnt flesh, he does that mean the smell of the oxygen. Liquid oxygen is very cold at atmospheric pressure, it can give you freeze burns, that can smell particularly become infected.

Oxygen does explode, they often use liquid oxygen for rocket fuel because it has so much power.

[djguss1]

Where is the rest of the video ? The crispy critter at the end is what the video was intended to show what would happen to you if you don't follow the safety rgulations when working with LOX.

[ATFSCrash]

That explosion was a demonstration of LOX. That was a very minimal explosion, when it is combined with other substances the reaction to be much more violent. It was also not contained in a way that would make the explosion more severe.

[ATFSCrash]

Great. Your is in better condition, and more of it. How about sending it as a video response? Thanks very much. Thumbs up

[coryw25]

sweet