On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 06:43:07 -0400, George george@least wrote:
Yep, on record as saying that, absent the volatile organics which are the
source of the ignition, you have wet sawdust, which won't burn on its own or
with a flame until the water is expelled. Fresh sawdust and fresh hay
outgas the same.

So your statement, without weasel-words built in as you have done, is
"Sawdust from a woodworking shop cannot spontaneously combust", yes or no?

The wonderful thing about science is that there is a cause - effect,
reproducible outcome.

And yet, there are people who don't understand it, and will expand one
situation to an unlrelated situation.


You find yourself approached to serve on many product liability juries?
Seems you're what the ambulance chasers would like.

That's kind of amusing to read, since I'm the one in the back of the
ambulance, working on the patient.

Draw a venn diagram of your sawdust/manure/fire theory, and you can show
yourself where the flaw in your logic is.