Re: Somebody got busted in Orange County - Florida

You can ignite it with a little meal in the open, I can't imagine how 
flash could fail to ignite it unless it blew it out or scattered it.

Then again I've never seen burning titanium blow out, it usually loves 
burning as it moves through the air.  I've got videos of it coming out 
of rocket plumes glowing orange and igniting into bright white fire as 
soon as it hits some oxygen.

Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:
> I -still- don't understand that, Rob.  I can get 20-mesh spherical Ti to
> light with regular flash.  Something else is wrong.
>
> My first inclination is that you have insufficient containment, or flash
> that is far too slow, so that the casing opens and the titanium escapes
> without being surrounded by the fire.
>
> Any flame hot enough to initially vaporize aluminum oxide will certainly
> ignite titanium, in almost any pyro mesh size.
>
> LLoyd
>
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> > With sponge, yes.  With spheric, I followed SOME of the advice given here,
> > but when further advice called for micro-manipulation and making flash
>
> compo
>
> > with a higher degree of precision, I realized it would be incompatible
>
> with
>
> > the scale I was working on.



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