Re: Coffee-making machine explodes, starts fire


"Steve Ackman" wrote in message

Well, that's just bizarre.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/north_bay&id=6887124


I guess it's a dust explosion, common to flour and sawdust, although chaff isn't specifically mentioned in Wik's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_explosion
It mentions coal, but I always thought coal dust need a combustible gas (like methane) present.


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