| From: | Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Uranium (was Re: SNIPER (God)) |
| Date: | Tue, 22 Feb 1994 17:42:39 -0500 |
<C598706%MIZZOU1.bitnet@*****.NIC.SURFNET.NL> writes:
TD> To agree with some other messages, I've never heard of DU rounds
TD> igniting. The energy required to ignite Uranium is tremendous: just to
TD> melt it, you need 1132 C, and it doesn't burn until well above that.
Melting and oxidizing are two different things. Uranium oxidizes at very
low temperatures (low room temperatures), and it is a fast, hot reaction.
You cannot use water to douse a uranium fire; the Uranium will literally
strip oxygen atoms away from the hydrogen so fast that the free hydrogen
won't explode because there isn't any oxygen left. Standard techniques for
fighting uranium fires are to isolate the fire, usually by dumping lots of
sand or other silicates on it, letting the heat turn the sand into glass,
and hoping the glass seals it off.
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