How not to put out a magnesium fire
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Do the British Firemen wear business suits to a fire?
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@cbsctomh Yes, and they put out fires with watering cans
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@JSnyder49428 Dry sand, or a type D extinguisher, which uses lithium alloys in the form of powder to "heatsink" the heat away. Other than dry sand, one could use magnesium foundry flux if available
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@seasonedcurlies lol
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magnesium fires are easy to put out, i took some magnesium strips home from chemistry coz we were doing a redox reaction prac... after the strip is burnt, it will go out just by waving it fast...
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Why would you spend money on something that can kill you and do nothing else when in this form? (No one better say stuff about guns and cars)
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@MultiPaulinator Yes when the fire is this small but once where I live a paint warehouse full of it caught on fire and when it is just that big you just let it burn out and protect nearby structures and call dominoes cuss ur gonna be there a while LOL!!!
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@pyronerd628 Amen
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@FirekidE62 What if you covered it in 20 pounds of soil and let burn off the reduced concentration of silicates, then would it run out of useable oxygen ions?
so how DO you put out a magnesium fire?
JSnyder49428 1 year ago 7
@JSnyder49428 You put dry sand on it.
necevans 1 year ago 18