# Spontaneous Combustion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262 "2007-02-07T20:36:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/1 "2007-02-07T20:36:33Z")
By Lynn C. Doyle ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/2 "2007-02-07T20:37:44Z")
This is the way Lynn C. Doyle ends This is the way Lynn C. Doyle ends This is the way Lynn C. Doyle ends Not with a whimper but a bang? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/3 "2007-02-07T20:40:33Z")
_Some_-body needs a time-out! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/4 "2007-02-07T20:40:45Z")
? I googled this and found nothing ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/5 "2007-02-07T20:42:35Z")
Always given to impregnating this or impregnating that. Jeez, give it a rest, would you? Pssst… Cal… _“Combustibility:- Incompatible with strong oxidizing agents. Reacts violently with chlorine. Rags or paper impregnated with linseed oil may spontaneously combust after a long period due to gradual exothermic reaction with oxygen.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/6 "2007-02-07T20:42:45Z")
Life Under the Bleachers by Seymour Butts ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/7 "2007-02-07T20:42:52Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] ? I googled this and found nothing [/QUOTE] Lynn C. Doyle Linseed oil ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/8 "2007-02-07T20:49:20Z")
> [@](#): > > “Combustibility:- Incompatible with strong oxidizing agents. Reacts violently with chlorine. Rags or paper impregnated with linseed oil may spontaneously combust after a long period due to gradual exothermic reaction with oxygen.” I KNOW what Spontanous Combustion is, **lieu** Ah – now that **Qadgop** has posted I see. “Linseed oil”. Cute. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/9 "2007-02-07T20:51:00Z")
by Perry Noid ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/10 "2007-02-07T20:53:40Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Lynn C. Doyle Linseed oil [/QUOTE] …ohhhhhh! _light bulb flickers on_ **I See (and hold friendly chats with) Dead People** By M. Deeum ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/11 "2007-02-07T21:01:03Z")
_Yellow River_ by **I. P. Freely** ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/12 "2007-02-07T21:02:02Z")
by Ben Thair and Don Thatt ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/13 "2007-02-07T21:05:16Z")
_Liability Suits for Fun and Profit_ by **Dewey, Cheatum and Howe** ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/14 "2007-02-07T21:27:13Z")
Damnit…now I’ll have to make it a quest to find out what [her](http://www.cn8.tv/channel/article.asp?lArticleID=4321&lChannelID=617&subhead=abtshow) middle name is. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/15 "2007-02-07T21:35:30Z")
_Overpopulated China_ by **Wi Fukum Yung** ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/16 "2007-02-07T22:12:25Z")
_Classic Printing Techniques_, by Rhoda Gravure _How to Get More Chicks_, by Oliver Closeoff _An Introduction to the Vascular Plants_, by Angie O’Sperm _Guide to Mass Transit_, by Rhoda Buss _Architecture for Everyone_, by Bill Ding And a few scholarly titles from the Ethnomusicology Department: _The Rituals of Death: A Comparitive Study of Mideval and Classical-Era Burial Music_, by Marcia Funebre _Satan Worship through History: The Black Plague in Song and Ritual_, by Dan Smacab. _The Evolution of Afro-Brazil Through Art, Ritual, Music, and Dance_, by Sam Ba By the way, I **loved** Lynne C. Doyle. I would never have thought of it in a bizillion years! ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/17 "2007-02-08T02:28:33Z")
Nobody has mentioned **Rusty Bedsprings** by _I. P. Knightly_, so I feel compelled to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slip_1)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/18 "2007-02-08T03:31:01Z")
**Over the Cliff** by Hugo First ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/19 "2007-02-08T04:56:10Z")
\*\*Fifty Yards to the Outhouse \*\* by Willy Makeit, illustrated by Betty Dont ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262/20 "2007-02-08T09:35:38Z")
_Vertigo at Beachy Head_ by Eileen Dover _Training Budgerigars To Talk_ by Hugh Zapretti-Boyden _My Life In The Light Cavalry_ by Major Assburns _From Oasis To Oasis With The Bedouins_ by Mustapha Kamul [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spontaneous-combustion/391262.md?page=2)