"Don Bruder" wrote in message
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In article ,
henning wright wrote:
Sorry to be picking on details, but the chemistry teacher in me , can?t
resist it. Acetylene has a tripple bond between the carbons, not a
double
bond. The tripple is what makes it so reactive. Each of those bonds are
relatively weak and so prone to break.
As for the O/A explosions, my chimistry teacher in high school did it
with a glass beaker wrapped in a towel. One heck of a bang and the
beaker
was just dust.
Henning
Don Bruder wrote in
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(Note 1/ASCII art)
An acetylene (C2H2) molecule - Each "/", and "\" is a molecular bond,
the "=" is the double-bond. C is a carbon atom, H is a hydrogen atom:
H H
\ /
C=C
/ \
H H
How'd I end up with "double" in this post, when I know damn well it's a
triple? sigh At least I was consistent, I guess 
(I *KNOW* that I've already posted that it's a triple bond in other
messages in this thread, too... The mind is the first to go?)
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Wow, this is pretty interesting stuff. Obviously old hat to a lot of you
guys, but it's new to me.
I am the type of guy that likes to experiment with stuff that I don't know
very much about. While I don't have any plans to mess with my acetylene,
it's possible this thread saved my wife a terrible mess to clean up.
Thanks for taking the time to explain things in such detail.