Re: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION

2003-04-18 Thread Marshall Dudley
...@execonn.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:36 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION This is true. I have seen steel burn brilliantly several times in oxygen. Marshall Albert Peirce wrote: The danger of an oxygen rich atmosphere is that any

RE: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION

2003-04-18 Thread James-Osborn: Holmes-Junior
@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION I don't believe they ever ran at 16 psi gage. The capsule was designed to run pure oxygen at the same partial pressure as on earth, which meant around 3 psi, absolute in space. I believe the tests were run at 3 psi over atmospheric

Re: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION

2003-04-18 Thread Marshall Dudley
absolute, and not 16 over atmospheric. Thanks for the correction. -Original Message- From: Marshall Dudley [mailto:mdud...@execonn.com] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 6:38 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION I don't believe they ever ran at 16

Re: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION

2003-04-18 Thread Charles Sutton
: http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/na/0amber.htm - Original Message - From: Marshall Dudley mdud...@execonn.com To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 8:37 AM Subject: Re: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION I don't believe they ever ran at 16 psi gage. The capsule

Re: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION

2003-04-18 Thread Harvey Norris
--- Marshall Dudley mdud...@execonn.com wrote: This is very interesting. I don't believe either of us is entirely correct after reading this: http://www.ocii.com/~dpwozney/apollo2.htm I deleted some of these threads so it may already have been mentioned, but geez folks, hasnt anyone every

RE: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION

2003-04-17 Thread James-Osborn: Holmes-Junior
-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION This is true. I have seen steel burn brilliantly several times in oxygen. Marshall Albert Peirce wrote: The danger of an oxygen rich atmosphere is that any combustion reaction is intensified! I believe that Gus Grissom

Re: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION

2003-04-15 Thread Albert Peirce
The danger of an oxygen rich atmosphere is that any combustion reaction is intensified! I believe that Gus Grissom and several other astronauts died as a result of an electrical fault (short circuit) in a confined space that was oxygen-rich and that everything that was combustible (wire

Re: CSOxygen, Burn or Explode? ELABORATION

2003-04-15 Thread Marshall Dudley
This is true. I have seen steel burn brilliantly several times in oxygen. Marshall Albert Peirce wrote: The danger of an oxygen rich atmosphere is that any combustion reaction is intensified! I believe that Gus Grissom and several other astronauts died as a result of an electrical fault