Fun time killer

Thank you for the post and picture
 
Shavru said:
now moisture and Zinc might actually make it even worse. Doesn't Zinc interact with the Hydrogen in water to produce some sort of deadly gas or something? Hmm, damn my mind for being full of all sorts of junk piled on top of my ancient college chemistry knowledge. I can't remember right now will have to do some research. But I am pretty sure Zinc and water and heat = something really bad. At least I can't shake the big red stop sign my mind throws up but I also can't remember why.
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You might be thinking sodium? Now thats a violent reaction. Zinc doesnt dissolve well in water. I know they bolt blocks of it to ship hulls to prevent rust or maybe thats barnacles...something like that? It does disolve readily in hydrochloric acid tho. If you want to remove galvanization thats the way to do it. Zinc when vaporized readily bonds with calcium in your body preventing your body from using it like its supposed to. I have read many stories of people killing themselfs off from the practice. Did it myself once but im back;)
 
ndoghouse said:
You might be thinking sodium? Now thats a violent reaction. Zinc doesnt dissolve well in water. I know they bolt blocks of it to ship hulls to prevent rust or maybe thats barnacles...something like that? It does disolve readily in hydrochloric acid tho. If you want to remove galvanization thats the way to do it. Zinc when vaporized readily bonds with calcium in your body preventing your body from using it like its supposed to. I have read many stories of people killing themselfs off from the practice. Did it myself once but im back;)
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I only heard of people getting temporary flue kind of sick from welding galvanised steel. But yeah if you go all out and evaporate all zinc on purpose it should be way worse. I didn't know it's deadly and also not why it's bad. Thanks for the interesting information.

Shavry I was always bad at predicting what kind of exact reaction will happen but I think with a lot of heat and zinc and water there could be a bit of hydrogen, but even if, it should not be enough to worry about, assuming of course it was pure zinc and not non flammable zinc oxide (more likely) or titanium dioxide (most likely)
 
Hmmmm, yeah I know that is correct. Because if I think about it I used Zinc plates bolted onto the bottom of the boat to keep the galvanic corrosion from eating the other metals (shaft ect) on the hull of the boat. Dang nabbit.... Well it is official...my brain is a rotted mess of missing data. Hmm, At this point I doubt I could even figure out what I thought I was thinking of but got slightly wrong. So I'll just agree I am wrong :D
 
Go to any blacksmith site (eg. anvilfire.com) and read accounts of dead people from accumulating zinc from throwing pipe couplings etc into the forge to burn it off. It does condense very well up the flue of a fireplace or any other cold surface from where you burned it off. Every time you make a fire hotter than the last time you vaporize it again and get it airborn. It comes off so easily in hydrochloric acid (muriatic pool acid) its just plain unwise to do it any other way.
 
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