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> that sounds like one terrible fire to be anywhere near. You think you're free basing smoke from a mountain of burning cocaine bricks and you end up inhaling
by viscanti 4y ago
> that sounds like one terrible fire to be anywhere near.
You think you're free basing smoke from a mountain of burning cocaine bricks and you end up inhaling something dangerous instead. Sounds like a big problem.
- cjbgkagh 4y agoFlower (and I guess sugar) can be explosive like a rudimentary fuel bomb. It has to be aerated first. If it’s tightly packed it’ll just smolder. If it’s aerated enough a shockwave will go through and oxidize it all at once. It’ll be one hell of an explosion. With cocaine you could probably be safe by standing up wind of the burn.
- notch898a 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Georgia_sugar_refinery_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Georgia_sugar_refinery_ex... If you work at a grain mill they'll probably show you the video.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoIs there some reason cocaine can't cause a dust explosion?
- cjbgkagh 4y agoMainly because I’ve never heard of one despite many large quantities of cocaine being burnt off after seizures (though maybe it was never cocaine). Cocaine melts (which I think is endothermic - chemistry class was a long time ago) and it doesn’t have as many oxygen atoms available in the molecule increasing the aeration requirement. Under ideal circumstances I’m sure just about anything that oxidizes could be made into a fuel air bomb but for it to happen accidentally it must be able to readily happen in much less than ideal circumstances. For things like flour particles can get drawn up into the smoke clouds mix with air in enough quantity to produce a shockwave and that explosion can cause more particles to get thrown into the air for secondary explosions.