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More than you would like. The amount of surface area left is substantial so something could be recovered. The best way is to melt them with thermite. If it is l
by venomsnake 13y ago
More than you would like. The amount of surface area left is substantial so something could be recovered. The best way is to melt them with thermite. If it is legal in your area.
- chii 13y agowait, thermite is illegal?
- venomsnake 13y agoI have no idea. Chances of a mix that violently burns at 1300 degrees being under regulation somewhere in the wide world are not that slim.
- angersock 13y agoIt's useful for fixing cracks in cast iron and joining rails, so I don't see why it'd be regulated.
- jlgreco 13y agoSomething being regulated does not mean that it can't be used industrially. Many types of explosives are regulated even though they are used industrially every day in quarries and mines. Still, restricting thermite would be silly and ineffective. As a chem-lab assistant, I made the stuff in highschool. Aluminum powder is widely available and rather cheap, as is iron oxide (obviously ;). I also made cupric oxide thermite, but that didn't work as well.
- jessaustin 13y agoEverything fun is illegal somewhere.
- lucaspiller 13y agoApparently the dye coating used on CD-Rs [0] has a melting point of 200-300C [1]. This is enough that even a candle would melt [2]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R [1] http://www.tstchem.com/eng/?page_id=243 http://www.tstchem.com/eng/?page_id=243 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire#Typical_temperatures_of_fires_and_flames http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire#Typical_temperatures_of_fi... (Links to more scientific evidence appreciated)