Re: Freeway collapse in Oakland (nDc)



Richard Morris wrote:
"Avant Grape" <avantgrape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:jj8Zh.6434$2v1.1124@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Joker wrote:

But...but...but...everyone knows gasoline fires arent' hot enough to
melt steel and deform concrete!!!



I made that same crack to my wife this morning. LOL Yeah, didn't you know, steel has no melting point. #### Riiiiiight.


yeah ... uh, anyone who has used an acetylene cutting torch knows that you warm steel with the acetylene, drop the oxygen on it and it *burns*, not melts. The concept being that steel will not just melt, it will burn if you get it hot enough.

R.


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