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> Have you ever tried to burn a chunk of concrete (good luck)? Try chlorine trifluoride :) Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John
by mirimir 7y ago
> Have you ever tried to burn a chunk of concrete (good luck)?
Try chlorine trifluoride :)
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark (1972)
https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...
- eftychis 7y agoYes concrete is "flammable" in the context of fluorine (most things are though). Chlorine trifuoride is extremely notorious for that. Silicon dioxide can be oxidized by fluorine (which is a stronger oxidizing agent than oxygen, so...) P.S. This is a fun video to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSoDW2-wrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSoDW2-wrc for "exciting" chemicals.
- SAI_Peregrinus 7y agoWell, the article mistakenly (to pedants like us) states: > All fires have three primary contributing causes – heat, fuel, and oxygen. When what they really mean is that fires have three requirements: initial energy input, fuel, and oxidizer. The input energy doesn't have to be heat (though it almost always is outside lab settings), and the oxidizer doesn't have to be oxygen (though it usually is outside lab and industrial settings).