Originally posted by midnight Target
Just mix all those gases together ...
You get a bunch of semi inert, kinda dangerous, nearly natural gas. Problem solved.
(I took Chemistry in college
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That would be bad. The natural gas is really the least of my worries. Its burning in its own chamber and there's enough safeguards that its really not a problem. Besides... its just natural gas.
The SiH4 OTH, is pyrophic. Simple contact with air is a bad thing. Not quite as bad as the "nearly pyrophoric" gas though... the one that hangs in a ready to combust state enabling it to actually build up volume until it hits something... well... anything. Then there's that little issue of mixing O2 with H2 and making a rocket motor where you didn't really want one.
But those aren't really that worrisom. I can't recall a single icident with any of these simply because we are totally paranoid with them. I'm just pissed cause a deadline is going to slip.
Oh.. and I found out the ommission was not an accident this morning... there was a problem that they were hoping I wouldn't find out about. Fricking unions.
MiniD