[geeks] Help... Pipe rescue

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

Just about anything with carbon compounds when mixed with granulated
chlorine will react quickly. Chlorine can act as an oxidizer. In fact,
special fire department permits are required for storing more than one
container of pool chlorine in many communities.

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Kurt Huhn [mailto:kurt at k-huhn.com]
~ Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:55 PM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [geeks] Help... Pipe rescue
~ 
~ 
~ > HNO3 + anything + H2SO4 (as a catalyst) == boom.
~ 
~ I have no idea what the chemical reaction is, but automotive 
~ brake fluid
~ when poured on regular old granulated pool chlorine, make quite a
~ spectacle...
~ -- 
~ Kurt
~ kurt at k-huhn.com
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~ poo-poo everything he eats." 
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