Timeline for Mineral that explodes when cooling down
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| Dec 7, 2017 at 22:15 | vote | accept | Blutkoete | ||
| May 8, 2017 at 8:43 | comment | added | Colonel Panic | Do volcanic bombs ever explode? "Volcanic bombs are known to occasionally explode from internal gas pressure as they cool" | |
| May 8, 2017 at 2:40 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | I used to work with the metallurgists and customer service engineers at a steel producer, who liked to tell the story of a customer who thought it would be a good idea (for reasons known only to the customer) to cool a cold-drawn steel bar down with dry ice. They put the bar in a box filled with dry ice on Friday night when they left for the weekend, and on Monday came in to find the box and bar destroyed. So yes, this can be done... | |
| May 7, 2017 at 3:21 | answer | added | rackandboneman | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 6, 2017 at 6:53 | comment | added | Theraot | Also half serius: glass | |
| May 5, 2017 at 20:54 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 5, 2017 at 19:42 | answer | added | Rozwel | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 5, 2017 at 14:26 | comment | added | Davidmh | Good old dynamite behaves similarly. It is very stable and relatively safe to manipulate as long as long as it lukewarm, but becomes unstable when below freezing. I don't know the chemistry involved, though. | |
| May 5, 2017 at 7:29 | answer | added | user11599 | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 4, 2017 at 23:06 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 4, 2017 at 3:06 | answer | added | Level River St | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 4, 2017 at 3:03 | answer | added | QuadmasterXLII | timeline score: 14 | |
| May 3, 2017 at 22:55 | answer | added | Alexander Duchene | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 3, 2017 at 22:28 | answer | added | Sarah | timeline score: 8 | |
| May 3, 2017 at 21:48 | answer | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 3, 2017 at 20:54 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Try spraying carbon dioxide on burning magnesium. | |
| May 3, 2017 at 18:01 | history | edited | Blutkoete | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 3, 2017 at 17:40 | comment | added | anon | Something else to consider is that maybe heating it normally makes it explode, but heating it in some special way (in an oxygenless environment, like wood -> charcoal, or slowly) above a threshold makes it inert. Then, you can use normal hot storage techniques to keep the whole thing above a certain temperature, but if it slips below, it would explode in the same scenarios. (Note: I have no idea if there's anything like this, but it seems, intuitively, more possible than something that explodes as it cools) | |
| May 3, 2017 at 17:15 | answer | added | Hagen von Eitzen | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 3, 2017 at 13:07 | comment | added | Willk | At least you could rock out with the loud band! | |
| May 3, 2017 at 9:14 | comment | added | Grimm The Opiner | Certainly, you could believably handwave a mineral that explodes if cooled too fast. My mum did this with a glass dish in which she had made a trifle, so it held boiling water (in the jelly). She put it in the fridge to set it quickly - later there was a loud band and the fridge shelf was full of broken glass and not-quite-set-jelly. (Which she wouldn't let us eat!) | |
| May 3, 2017 at 5:46 | comment | added | djsmiley2kStaysInside | Ice..... in any enclosed space will exert pressure as it solidifies. | |
| May 3, 2017 at 4:20 | answer | added | Green | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 3, 2017 at 1:21 | answer | added | Someone Else 37 | timeline score: 20 | |
| May 2, 2017 at 23:36 | answer | added | kingledion | timeline score: 84 | |
| May 2, 2017 at 22:50 | comment | added | Brian McCutchon | @JDługosz Yes, I posted that before I saw that answer. | |
| May 2, 2017 at 22:47 | comment | added | JDługosz | @BrianMcCutchon as in the Answer posted 2 hours ago, with picture? | |
| May 2, 2017 at 22:46 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 2, 2017 at 22:36 | comment | added | Brian McCutchon | Half serious: a soda bottle left in the freezer. | |
| May 2, 2017 at 22:26 | history | edited | JDługosz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 2, 2017 at 20:45 | answer | added | Thorsten S. | timeline score: 37 | |
| May 2, 2017 at 19:50 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 61 | |
| May 2, 2017 at 18:54 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 26 | |
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| May 2, 2017 at 18:34 | history | asked | Blutkoete | CC BY-SA 3.0 |