
484: No Such Thing As An Exploding Janitor
No Such Thing As A Fish
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The Problem With Hydrogen Fires
A high pressurized amount of hydrogen can easily become a fire. However, the flame burns with this incredibly pale blue flame. NASA employees to detect if they had a hydrogen fire in the situation had to walk around holding a broomstick and when the head of the broom caught fire they knew that that was a problem basically. That's what they had to do. All these brilliant engineers would stick to smoking. Have you heard of the sleeve in? Like you do, science. No, no I haven't heard of the broomstick story. My father worked in a steel factory. So they also had hydrogen in pipes. And like you said, the smallest leakage, the hydrogen would come out and
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