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What's risky about heating hydrogen, magnesium and lithium and squeezing them hard together? Apart from any addition of oxygen blowing out the building?
by wwosik 7y ago
What's risky about heating hydrogen, magnesium and lithium and squeezing them hard together? Apart from any addition of oxygen blowing out the building?
- JulianMorrison 7y agoAt that pressure, any crack in the containment would have a blast radius. Even before the subsequent thermobaric explosion.
- jarfil 7y agoDepends on how much it compresses and can expand when breached. The blast radius from uncompressible liquids like water is close to zero no matter the pressure, a metal shouldn't be much different.