is all oil flammable?

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like vegetable oil and stuff? (i know abt lighter fuel and that)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Beavis?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

vegetable oil is flammable, spill some on a hot stove element if you don't believe me.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I think nearly everything is flammable if heated enough. That's the point of the combustion point, right?

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Any oil is extremely flammable, and you can't put it out with water because they don't mix.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Three words: chip pan fire

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

not olive oil - not with a lighter anyway, i just checked. (god if i don't take a walk or something i'll probably test the element thing and pay dearly for my bored curiosity)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

if you dumped a million litres of water onto a chip pan fire I bet you would no longer have a problem with the fire.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Well ok theoretically a million liters of water would douse any fire.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Depends on how you dumped it, you may get lucky and get all the oil under the water long enough for the fire to go out otherwise the oil will continue to burn on the surface.

Million liters of water will not douse large tire or forest fires.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I'M TALKING SNUFFING, HERE.

how many litres of water per forest fire/per tire fire?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

as much as it takes or just let it burn.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

groundnut oil doesn't light via matches = it is not flammable

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

do you work for a fire expert company, noodles?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

how hot does water have to be before it gets flammable?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

flammable water.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm tire fire, you say? (you take them off the car first right?)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

b... but THEORETICALLY!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

No but we had a huge tire fire in Quebec years ago that went on for weeks and in the past few years the bush fires in Northern Ontario have been incredible.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

potable is my favourite word!! this thread is grebt!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

(thanks a lot RJG. whatever that link says it's bunk - i just ruined my zippo in the bathtub)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

what's a "liter"?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

1990 Tire fire in Saint-Amable and this one in Ontario
Monday February 12 1990 : Hagersville Tire Fire, Ont , burned for 16 days, 1.5 million to extinguish
The problem was the tempurature was so high that the water turned to steam before reaching the tires.

http://www.nfpa.org/Research/Library/Bibliographies/TireFires/TireFires.asp

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

a liter = the quantity of diesel you need to douse a chip fire

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

1.5 million litres of water to extinguish? that's only half as much again.

http://www10.brinkster.com/xlunax/quotes.html

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

wait chips are flammable too?

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

mr noodles in fact the water was catching fire and settling light to the unmelted bits of the tire which had previously been put out by the rubber which went runny

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish that had said potent potables.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.kingsford.com/images/woodchips.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a typo in moby's first word!! this thread is the best evah!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

stop, drop rock & roll!

― Yancey (ystrickler), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

no no the things you call "crisps"!!!

(yay "runny" is MY favorite word!! agreed, best thread ever)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

haha RUNNY!! weeeee i love computers right now

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

is billy joil flammable?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

We can dream, can't we?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

olive oyl?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I meant: olive oil?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

poop eye?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Im trying to remeber my chemistry lessons to figure if water can combust. For some reason I keep thinking that water is a byproduct of oxidation. But it would be in our wonderful ideal world that only exists in chemistry lectures H2O + 02 -> O2 + H2 + H2O which would work but still seems wrong to me.

water was catching fire and settling light to the unmelted bits of the tire which had previously been put out by the rubber which went runny
I remeber the leachate (I think thats the word Im looking for?) being an issue now that you mention it but either way, they decided that dousing the thing with water was a bad idea at some point.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

blue toe?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

what do you call water when it catches fire? BOIL!! DO YOU SEE!!

everything makes sense

those are the things we call "crisps", jones

i have been watching contact w.jody foster

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

did she like the film mark?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

BE OIL!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

if Noodles keeps trying to be serious i'm calling him noodoils and testing him next

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

haha billy jel didn't start the fire

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Tire yard safety is no laughing matter,

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I just went outside for a cigarette and it was raining--I think I singed my eyebrows. physical proof.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

what is firewater? They used to drink it in the wild west didn't they?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but those crisps are WOOD!! unless you tell me your bucolic park trails are lined with salt-and-vinegar potato slices, your topsy-turvy culture will blast forever out of the realm of comprehension

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

what are firechips? they used to eat them in the wildwest didn't they?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

firewater isn't in the wild west[end of glasgow].

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

it just says wood on the packet!! inside they are pure oily goodness!!

is vinegar flammable?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

tonight on BBC4: c*r*i*s*p*s
http://www.erikestrada.com/estrada-as-ponch.jpg
followed by Up-Is-Downstairs

― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.waterfire.com/ = smoke on the water!

(thanks RJG!)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

keep your chips safe with friable asbestos

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/EHSRM/ASB/PHOTOS/mineralasb07.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, I love how they have a quarter in there to give a sense of scale to that...stuff.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

a sense of scale!!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 21 November 2002 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread is entertaining me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.a.ghinn.btinternet.co.uk/testingsafety.gif

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)

a box of matches.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

"sometimes it continues to smoulder beneath the moss and breaks out elsewhere"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"tonight on BBC4: c*r*i*s*p*s

followed by Up-Is-Downstairs"

This made me larf. All the things I ever wanted to watch on BBC2 has now gone to Beeb 4, which I can't get since it's digital or some such newfangled thang. Bah. Why is there no terrestrial channel for pretentious wankers?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, tautology. Am pretentious but am unaware of basic grammar. Alternatively, it is because I is black.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.sscl.demon.co.uk/crisps.jpg

― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Friday, 22 November 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't it vapour that combusts, not liquid?

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 22 November 2002 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

combustion is rapid oxidation, it can happen in any state.

Propane vapours are more dangerous to your everyday gas jockey then liquid propane but I wouldnt want to light a match near either. This doesn't stop people from smoking cigars when they get propane tanks filled up though. Apparently the vapours tend to explode as opposed to just burn, but I havent tried this out myself and I don't intend to find out.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 22 November 2002 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

mr noodles is wrong again: tests have shown it can't happen in the state of wyoming

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 23 November 2002 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

This is the best scientific discussion I've ever seen.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 23 November 2002 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

combusts=explodes and the other one=ignites??

but the suck-squeeze-pop-blow.

etc.

I think mark s has confused wyoming with somewhere else.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 23 November 2002 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

idahoil?

― jones (actual), Saturday, 23 November 2002 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

no, wisconsinflammable.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 23 November 2002 01:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Texas = petrol station

― C J (C J), Saturday, 23 November 2002 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

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