I had a wonderful college instructor who told some terrible stories about burns people received from fooling around with pure oxygen. I meant burn. Oxygen is sort of like fuel that will allow generally inflammable substances to burn. The situations that are most risky are doing things like spraying pure oxygen in your face, on your clothing, or hair or allowing it to build up in any significant concentration in a confined area where there is anything remotely able to burn. For example a common one done with hair, is that welders might dust it with a blast of compressed oxygen and then get a static charge. It will ignite their hair and anything that has been covered with the oxygen nearby (skin) and it will burn fiercely. I suppose you could get an explosion depending on how flammable the substance that was in the presence of the pure oxygen was.
The trick is, don't let it get concentrated anywhere except maybe up your nose. Pure oxygen is very oxidizing and can actually damage the lungs in too high a concentration. Tish -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
