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[Sensei]

Remember fire still needs fuel...

Anyway, rust is the result of oxidation. So yeah, quite corrosive.

[Neruz]

There are worse things than oxygen though. There are a few exotic chemicals which are more vigorous oxidising agents than oxygen itself.

[zchris13]

As a pure element, it's one of the worst though.

[kilakan]

ya and when the atmosphere was in the 30% of oxygen each lightning bolt incinerated an acre of forest, the entire world would blow up, each fire would suffocate itself once it got too big, but any sparks, fires, ect. would burn really hot and no oxygen does NOT need a fuel to burn, it can burn just fine on it's own, it's more like a fuel needs oxygen to burn, it doesn't work both ways. Just like Methane can burn all by itself but if exposed to another fire, they burn even better together.

[LegoLord]

ya and when the atmosphere was in the 30% of oxygen each lightning bolt incinerated an acre of forest, the entire world would blow up, each fire would suffocate itself once it got too big, but any sparks, fires, ect. would burn really hot and no oxygen does NOT need a fuel to burn, it can burn just fine on it's own, it's more like a fuel needs oxygen to burn, it doesn't work both ways. Just like Methane can burn all by itself but if exposed to another fire, they burn even better together.

If oxygen could really burn without a fuel, then we'd be using concentrated oxygen as an energy source on its own.  As is, we need hydrogen or hydrocarbons to combust it with.

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[LegoLord]

That's hydrogen peroxide.  An unstable, complex molecule that has a more stable form as whater and oxygen.  Oxygen is more stable than that, and is composed of only two oxygen atoms, so it can't really decompose.

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[Rashilul]

How did this become a discussion on if the atmosphere is going to explode with higher oxygen levels?

[Cheeetar]

Because it would be awesome to blow up the atmosphere with oxygen.

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[ChairmanPoo]

ya and when the atmosphere was in the 30% of oxygen each lightning bolt incinerated an acre of forest, the entire world would blow up, each fire would suffocate itself once it got too big, but any sparks, fires, ect. would burn really hot and no oxygen does NOT need a fuel to burn, it can burn just fine on it's own, it's more like a fuel needs oxygen to burn, it doesn't work both ways. Just like Methane can burn all by itself but if exposed to another fire, they burn even better together.

Was anyone else reminded of this?

Due to extensive research done by the University of Pittsburgh, diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows. Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed. They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine. They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors. They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond traveling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours. They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth's orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards mid-western Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour. They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused two wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with two buildings in downtown New York. They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive. Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall traveling at miles per iron, and the result proved without a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man.

[Rashilul]

Yes, quite this whole discussion