<VV> Theoretical recommendations.

[Bryan Blackwell]

It's not really that easy to light magnesium on fire, but yes, they burn, and as far as I've ever heard they are all made of the same material - there might have been some alloying, but I've always heard it as a straight magnesium.  So are VW beetle transmission cases, they burn really well.  And yes, that's the origin of the term 'mag' wheel, the really light racing wheels were magnesium.

BTW, a tank of gasoline also burns pretty good.  Lots of really dangerous stuff about cars.  I wish more people understood that fact.

--Bryan

On Sep 1, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Charles Fregeau wrote:

> All magnesium?  Isn't that a bit dangerous?  I remember in high school our
> physics teacher got a ribbon of magnesium and made us wear goggles while he
> lit it and boy did it ever burn.