Timeline for Spontaneous combustion of sulfur in a steel barrel
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| Oct 14, 2017 at 3:00 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 28, 2017 at 16:47 | answer | added | Sherwood Botsford | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 27, 2017 at 20:46 | comment | added | Sherwood Botsford | Sulfur is used in horticulture to lower soil pH. There is a bacteria that makes it's living turning S into SO3, and so creates dilute sulfuric acid. Normally applied at a rate of 1-2 pounds per square meter to drop soil pH by one pH unit. Used it at heavier applications you can drop soil pH down to about 4. Now the only thing that will grow is moss. Easy way to control weeds at edges of things. | |
| Sep 27, 2017 at 8:31 | comment | added | Karl | Why would you need sulfur? I would take a lot of things i get for free, but sulfur is not among them. | |
| Sep 27, 2017 at 7:25 | comment | added | Ivan Neretin | Back in the days of sailing ships with wooden hulls, spontaneous ignition was a huge issue. | |
| Sep 27, 2017 at 0:58 | answer | added | blacksmith37 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 21:28 | comment | added | MaxW | My guess is tribology. Pieces of the sulfur were banging together as you went down the road which created a spark that started the fire. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 20:52 | history | edited | pentavalentcarbon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 20:18 | comment | added | Curt F. | Static electricity? Maybe a spark happened when you began to move the barrels around? | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 18:57 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 18:37 | history | edited | Mithoron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 18:15 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 18:15 | history | asked | Sherwood Botsford | CC BY-SA 3.0 |