SC - OT - CO2 cautions

Rodney K Zeigler zeig0006 at tc.umn.edu
Thu Jan 8 14:08:37 PST 1998


Responding to message 
<Pine.SUN.3.91.980109075119.10676A-100000 at sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
from Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn at sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>:
> 
> I suspect this is not the case - I would imagine that in CO2 petrol 
> wouldn't burn, so it wouldn't matter if it was there or not.
> 
> Charles
> 

It could, in theory, burn hot enough to separate the CO2 into O2 and soot, 
which would also burn in a fire that hot, shifting equilibrium toward 
separation, causing more to react, and so on, ad infinitum.

Kent (Let this thread die soon, please.)



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