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Good point. I remember a science demonstration where lighting a balloon filled with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen caused a much more violent eruption compared to a balloon of pure hydrogen.


Both pure hydrogen and a stochiometric hydrogen-oxygen mixture explode (produce a bang, indicating a flame front moving faster than the speed of sound).

The stochiometric mixture explodes more violently, true. But again, both explode.

Periodic Videos, feat. Destin Sandlin: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qOTgeeTB_kA




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