Oh, for heaven's sake Placid. Pay attention.
Acetylene, yes. But no oxygen is produced in the reaction with water.
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Ghoti Fingers, Wed 23 Apr 2014, 17:12,
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Same as this, calcium carbide in barrel, ignited....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Z4T7j1FWI
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Anyone with a relative pushing the numbers may have heard of "carbide lamps" for pushbikes as batteries were newfangled or expensive or summat. prewar II, the operation was not simple, but water somehow dripped on said material produced acetylene which burned with a smokey yellow flame.
My gran explained it to me in about an hour, 5 minutes of which were coherent and pertinent and i remain unenlightened.
All my dad said was if you shook them up and threw them they exploded and blew white liquid everywhere, they used to target the local beat copper who looked like he had been bird-shitted afterwards. This is more interesting, me being me, but you would just have got slap if caught, rather than a crim record and a jeremy Kyle invite as per today.
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