History repeating itself (NAC)

[Phil Payne]

> > > The *reason* you can use hydrogen as a simple fuel is that it oxidizes
> > > so readily.  It spontaneously combusts in air, in fact.  With a "boom!"
> >
> > We filled a few hundred little balloons with hydrogen and let go of them last year.  Not
one
> > went "Boom!!"
>
> Did you use them for target practice or just let let them drift away?
> Were they red?  Why not 99?

Why would they be red in my case?

> And last, but most imprtant, why, exactly?

Charity ballon race.  Buy a balloon, attach a card, and see whose goes the furthest.  Frowned
on now by the ecologists - litters the countrside?

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