How hazardous is medical oxygen?

Is that even necessary? All you have to do is hold your mouse over the link and see the file extension.

From WebMD:

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Cocoa butter? Really? Cocoa butter is pure fat, and is also flammable.

for what it is worth, I have had 4 patients to die in fires caused by flames + medical oxygen. All were smokers who had been warned but chose to keep smoking.

You want the real answer, or the official answer?

The official answer, of course, is based on an abundance of caution, the clumsiest and stupidest patient hypothetically possible, and a room full of pinatas. In which case, yeah, don’t be in the same room as an open flame.

In reality, medical oxygen doesn’t present a problem nearly as often as the warnings would indicate danger. My husband - retired firefighter/paramedic - used to get a kick out of scaring the pants off his EMS students by blowing oxygen at a lit cigarette. It burns it right quick, a nice neat ZIIIIIP right up the tube. But it doesn’t explode or fireball or anything *really *entertaining.

Oxygen itself doesn’t burn. It’s an oxidizer. It helps other things burn. So you need other flammable things plus heat to present a danger from the oxygen.

This site uses a particularly evil malware ad system called Vigilink. These *******s sometimes redirect real links with their own links for marketing purposes.

What you see is not always what you get here.

(There are also occasional cases where the given file extensions doesn’t actually match the file type.)

What mouse?