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[Mathel]

You wouldn't think steel could be flammable, but anything can be flammable if you add enough surface area and oxygen.

#OxidationGang

Unless it is already oxidized, such as water or glass.

[King Zultan]

If you get it hot enough you can burn anything!

[Mathel]

No, that's the point, you can't burn stuff that is alredy fully burned. You can melt it, you can vaporize it, but you can't burn it.

You could burn oxides in fluorine or hellfire (ClF₃), but not in oxygen.

[Great Order]

Bring in FOOF and you quickly learn that everything can burn.

Stuff's so horrendously unstable that it decays at 4% a day at -160C, there's only one set of general experiments because nobody wants to work with a chemical that happily burns everything, including hapless researchers.

Stuff reacts with hydrogen sulphide so vigorously that mixing one mole of each releases energy on roughly the same level as a small breakfast.

[MCreeper]

Stuff reacts with hydrogen sulphide so vigorously that mixing one mole of each releases energy on roughly the same level as a small breakfast.

So, small breakfast sized bunch of chemicals releases as much energy as a small breakfast. Very informative of you, fancypants. 

[Lord Shonus]

One mole worth of hydrogen sulfide is ludicrously small - looks like 5.6458e-23 grams.

[Frumple]

I think they're trying to make a joke about the similarly spelled small burrowing mammal?

[MCreeper]

Nah, forgetting what little i knew about chemistry and thinking that a mole of water is about a cup. Not even close.

[Il Palazzo]

A rule of thumb is, one mole of a molecule will always be around one gram per nucleon. So, hydrogen sulfide is around ~36 grams; dioxygen difluoride ~34.
70 grams is 1/3rd of a cup of water. Or 2/3rds of a chocolate bar. It is a (very) small breakfast.

[Mathel]

One mole worth of hydrogen sulfide is ludicrously small - looks like 5.6458e-23 grams.

One mole of H₂S weighs roughly 34 grams. Still too light to be a breakfast, but way more than what you said. One mole of pure carbon weights 12g by definition. Carbon's relative atomic mass is 12, hydrogen's is 1 and sulphur's is 32.

What you said is one molecule.

[bloop_bleep]

One mole worth of hydrogen sulfide is ludicrously small - looks like 5.6458e-23 grams.

That's one molecule of hydrogen sulfide. One mole is 34.1 g.

[Lord Shonus]

Google must have screwed up my search, then. I thought it sounded wrong, but I figured that was my own stupidity.

[Egan_BW]

Always remember that however stupid you are, the algorithm is stupider.

[BlackFlyme]

A bridge underpass was closed off tonight because a few cars were in flames right under it.

Stupid part is people were still trying to drive around the cops and fire trucks.

[pisskop]

One time I was in Rhode Island to ... club, and I passed by a really cool car fire.  You could feel the heat for hundreds of feet, but it wasnt exactly the kind of place or time of night I felt comfortable hanging out in, so I didnt stay to marvel at just how intense it was.