Klarinet Archive - Posting 000450.txt from 2002/01

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Orange Peels
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:51:36 -0500

<<<Going back to my high school chemistry teacher who showed us the highly
combustible/explosive liquid contained in orange peels by squeezing a piece
of peel into a Bunsen burner flame. He said that it was many more times
explosive that gasoline.>>>

Now, everyone just calm down, relax, don't get excited. I have put orange
peels (and sometimes grapefruit peels) in the cases with my instruments
many, many times during the past 40 years or so, and I'm happy to report
that not one of them has ever exploded!

Ed Lacy
EL2@-----.edu

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