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A comment on Apollo 1.

Re:Apollo 1 by colinbartlett on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:54AM (#13481339)
> The risk, of course, is that pure oxygen under high pressure requires but a spark to ignite and rapidly burn.

Frustrating to see even a technically-oriented publication report that oxygen burns.

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Re:Apollo 1 by Ajedi32 on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:43AM (#13481693)
I don't know, I think it kinda depends on how you look at it. Sure oxygen doesn't burn without a fuel source, but a fuel source won't burn without oxygen either; both are required in order to produce fire. Why do we then say the fuel is burning but not the oxygen? Just a thought...
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Re:Apollo 1 by robryk on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:21PM (#13484205)
Because oxygen is much more common than fuel on Earth's surface.
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