Re: RE: re: [DL] Deadlands D20 -- Flamethrowers and Mad Science[SHANE]

["Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net>]

Then again there's always Willy Pete a.k.a. White phosphorous.  Ignites very
easily but doesn't require air to burn.  This means that just about the only
way to get burning white phosophorous off you is to cut it off.
          Daniel Gwyn
"No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again!"
From "The Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers (1949-1983)
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Nick Zachariasen <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>
À : deadlands@gamerz.net <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Date : December 5, 2001 3:27 AM
Objet : Re: RE: re: [DL] Deadlands D20 -- Flamethrowers and Mad
Science[SHANE]


>> Also harkening back to high school chemistry, isn't potassium kept in oil
>to
>> keep it from igniting upon contact with the air?
>>
>> I believe you're thinking of Sodium, nasty stuff especially when dropped
>in
>> a bucket of water.
>>
>> Just think of it.  Glass shotgun shells fill with oil and pure potasium
as
>> the shot.  They do shotgun damage going in and either continue burning or
>do
>> burn damage when removed. heh heh heh.
>
>Potassium?  Forget that, man!  Granted, it's probably ot been discovered
>yet, but imagine in HoE Cesium rounds!  In a video they showed us in high
>school once a little (MAYBE 1/8" diamter) disc of that stuff blew out the
>side of the container, which was probably a foot across, and it did so
quite
>violently.  They didn't show us Francium, probably due to its
radioactivity.
>The Alkaloids just keep getting more and more volatile as you go down the
>column, so when you remember that water sets it off, just think what the
>human body's primarily composed off- especially blood >:) .
>
>Nick "One of these days, baby... milkshake... BOOM!!!!!" Zachariasen
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