How to light a grill in 2 seconds

Web classic (circa 1995) of engineers lighting a grill [really fast] with liquid oxygen.

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[xucam]

Oxygen boils at -297 and freezes at -369*

Nitrogen boils at -320 and freezes at -346*

So above -297 both are gasses

Between -320 and -297 O2 is a liquid but N2 is a gas

Between -346 and -320 both are liquid

Between -369 and -346 O2 is a liquid but N2 is a solid

Below -369 both are solids

* According to wikipedia

[admotion26]

really stupit..

[xucam]

Umm, I think you meant 'stooopit'

[Aaron Kulkis]

Wrong. Stupid would be NOT using the 15-foot board to hold the LOX vessel. GHG new exactly what he was doing (note that he did NOT catch himself on fire, nor did he ever come close to doing so). I know the man personally. There's a difference between stupidity and boldness -- learn it.

[Lightning4119]

You don't have to light it from outside the blast radius, either.

[josoverthehill]

I would think this is age restricted so that stupid young imperssionable minds don't copy stupid older, should-know-better idiots.

(or, if you were able to view it, why are you bitching about the restriction in the first place?)

[KnightRanger38]

Liquid Hydrogen works a lot better as rocket fuel than liquid nitrogen. There are some some chemicals that have nitrogen as a component that also make good rocket fuel or explosives.

[kstahmer]

George Gobel: 1996 Ig Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.



[DragonFlyback256]

Who

The Fuck

Flagged

This??

[4year4thyear]

Why is this age restricted?

[sgtgiggles]

this is essentially what rocket fuel is...mixing of liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen

[Louis Laszlo]

I think I'll stick to my charcoal chimney, thank you. It may not get the coals lighted quite as fast, but it's more environmentally friendly and won't annihilate my beloved grill.

[Aidster20]

the reason it burns so well is because of the 100% oxygen consentration at the fire the temperature of the oxygen is irellavent if you could get a 100% consentration of oxygen gass at the fire it would burn about the same (a little faster because of collision princeples) but because of the high concentration of o2 compared to in air which is some where around 20% objects will spontaneous combust so ur diamite will explode much more powerfully