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"Luke" wrote:

"NoJags Neil" wrote in message
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Ahhh... very interesting... aluminium with iron oxide... thermite
reaction, anybody?

It was the fabric that caused the disaster, not the hydrogen.


Perhaps the hydrogen caused it, but the thermite reaction made it
historic.


Luke

Nope -- it was the nitrate dope that everybody used on fabric in those
days. The aluminum powder in the dope (for UV protection) would have
played only a minor role.