On 7/3/2021 9:04 PM, Henry Spencer wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jul 2021, Matthew JL wrote:
I can back up some of this experience with my environmental remediation background, hydrogen peroxide is _very_ easy to get complacent around even at 30% concentration. Stringency of working with LOX with the appearance of water.
I find myself wondering how much of the bad reputation (in some quarters) of peroxide ultimately derives from people looking at it and thinking -- perhaps without being very conscious of this -- "water" rather than "room-temperature LOX"... and then suffering the consequences of that terribly misleading line of thought.
"LOX cleanliness standards, and LOX consequences if you don't." -- Mitch Burnside Clapp, 1995.
In fact, now that I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised if a certain fatal nitrous accident was also partly the end result of people carelessly thinking "well, it's not LOX, after all...".
