KeepOurFreedoms
Well-Known Member
It makes little difference what you believe. Facts are facts. Go argue with the engineering department at purdue. Of course, they aren't the only ones who have reached the same result.
Aluminum burns more than 2000 degress hotter than the heat necessary to cause the failure of steel under pressure. Add liquid oxygen to the mixture and only a dolt would suggest that there wasn't enough heat to cause the steel to fail.
"Because of the widespread use of aluminium alloys in building,
transport, home appliances and offshore structures, it is necessary to
address the issue of aluminium and fire and to answer the question,
'does aluminium burn?'.
The answer is, of course, "No". Each year hundreds of thousands of
tonnes of aluminium scrap are fed into remelt furnaces and heated up
to and beyond the melting point. The aluminium melts when the
temperature exceeds the melting point, it does not burn. If it did,
the recycling of aluminium would not be possible. "