Is Carbon Monoxide flamable?

[j_sum1]

Fun with magnesium. I can trump that.

On his fantastic blog: Things I won’t work with, Derek Lowe points out a couple of fearsome oxidisers. I am pretty certain that they will react with carbondioxide. The lesser of the two will set quartz sand on fire. (Sand won’t save you this time. Worth a read.) And this link shows the culpritChlorine Triflouride and a video of some French chemists demonstrating how it renders all their safety equipment useless.
This all pales in comparison toFOOF.

Short answer to the flammability of CO or CO2 even. With the right oxidiser, pretty much anything will burn.

[Lemur866]

Since fluorine is more electronegative than oxygen, you can get all kinds of nasty reactions between fluorine compounds and materials we normally consider inert. Like sand.

[naita]

@j_sum1

Nope. That’s carbon dioxide.

No, I think the word for carbon dioxide and such is unflammable.

[j_sum1]

@naita

No, I think the word for carbon dioxide and such is unflammable.

Dare I say whoosh. Or maybe my joke was too lame.

[Tassvarg]

@Una_Persson

…Stegosaurus stenops.…they really are carnivores. And they’re hungry.

If you can’t care for your pets you could turn them in to an animal shelter.

Lots of food for them there.

[user_hostile]

@j_sum1

Fun with magnesium. I can trump that.

On his fantastic blog: Things I won’t work with, Derek Lowe points out a couple of fearsome oxidisers. I am pretty certain that they will react with carbondioxide. The lesser of the two will set quartz sand on fire. (Sand won’t save you this time. Worth a read.) And this link shows the culpritChlorine Triflouride and a video of some French chemists demonstrating how it renders all their safety equipment useless.
This all pales in comparison toFOOF.

Short answer to the flammability of CO or CO2 even. With the right oxidiser, pretty much anything will burn.

Great links; the comments are a hoot, too.

[eastcheap]

@CalMeacham

CO[sub]2[/sub] may be non-flammable, and used in fire extinguishers, but it can actually feed oxygen to a fire under certain circumstances.

Of course, in that case, you’re not so much burning CO[sub]2[/sub] as unburning it.

[naita]

@j_sum1

Dare I say whoosh. Or maybe my joke was too lame.

To me it had no humorous value, but I considered it so likely to be a joke instead of ignorance that I posted a paraplegic joke in return instead of a lesson on the equality between flammable and inflammable. You see, unflammable isn’t even a word, cromulent though it may appear.

[Malacandra]

@user_hostile

Great links; the comments are a hoot, too.

“{Chlorine trifluoride} is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers”. :eek:

[j_sum1]

My favourite is “whip up a batch of Satan’s kimchi”

[Darth_Panda]

@eastcheap

Of course, in that case, you’re not so much burning CO[sub]2[/sub] as unburning it.

I think that only works in the Southern Hemisphere.

[Colophon]

@Hari_Seldon

No the ones that are still with us are the Steganosauruses.

Well I’ve never seen one.

[Colophon]

@j_sum1

Fun with magnesium. I can trump that.

On his fantastic blog: Things I won’t work with, Derek Lowe points out a couple of fearsome oxidisers. I am pretty certain that they will react with carbondioxide. The lesser of the two will set quartz sand on fire. (Sand won’t save you this time. Worth a read.) And this link shows the culpritChlorine Triflouride and a video of some French chemists demonstrating how it renders all their safety equipment useless.
This all pales in comparison toFOOF.

Short answer to the flammability of CO or CO2 even. With the right oxidiser, pretty much anything will burn.

That book Ignition looks like a fun read. PDF here.

”It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”

[eastcheap]

@Darth_Panda

I think that only works in the Southern Hemisphere.

Only in Rand McNally.

[Darth_Panda]

@eastcheap

Only in Rand McNally.

Is that where hot snow falls up?