Re: Somebody got busted in Orange County - Florida

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 2003-12-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>    >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.
>
> But at most 1 particle of Ti ignited even in a triangle salute, wherein the
> expansion of the case keeps the flame around the contents longer.  And it
> didn't work even in flash that I'd mixed by sieving, and I usually don't
> sieve flash.  The KClO4 was separately ball milled.

Are you sure you have Titanium there?  Not Tungsten spheres or 
something. :-)

Does it ignite with meal in a paloma?  I've tried that and works just 
fine in my experence.

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