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Solids like wood, for example, don't burn as solids until initial heat converts 'em to gas.


Ken
So the thought is the powder is "boiling off" sort of like gasoline and its vapors that will ignite violantly once they have reached a certain density?

Bob, that smith wouldn`t be Bruce?

Last edited by Ol` Joe; 04/29/08.

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