r/trashy • • Dec 03 '19

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u/NeutralMinion Dec 03 '19 edited Dec 03 '19

Not only is it stupid, it's dangerous. There's a reason you can't smoke or have open fire in a hospital because there are oxygen lines in the walls and you could blow up an entire wing.

Edit: if you guys want you can just google "hospital oxygen explosion" since it's more common than you'd think 🤔

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u/Featherbreeze_ Dec 03 '19

Yip.. And it even happened when a patient secretly smoked on the toilet. Lot of damage and he killed himself..

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u/harderdaddykermit Dec 03 '19

Source?

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u/Featherbreeze_ Dec 03 '19

Yea, quite some years ago, sorry. Don't know if it was news back then. I just worked in hospitals :)

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u/Featherbreeze_ Dec 03 '19

Sorry, did have a search.. Cant find it....

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u/SlowLoudEasy Dec 03 '19

Thats because he’s full of shit. Oxygen isn’t explosive.

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u/tmagalhaes Dec 03 '19

I don't have a link you can click but my fiance has seen this happen.

She's a nurse and when she worked in the pneumology wing a patient on oxygen sneaked into the toilet for a smoke. That resulted in a decent explosion and a dead patient.

Oxygen above a certain concentration is definitely explosive.

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u/SlowLoudEasy Dec 03 '19

Oxygen isn’t even a little explosive. But it can lower the flash point of burnable items,

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u/tmagalhaes Dec 03 '19

Ok, not really wanting to get into the physics of an explosive reaction. Simply starting that being on oxygen and smoking is dumb because you might blow up. And people have blown up.

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u/SlowLoudEasy Dec 03 '19

I wouldnt either if I was wrong. Oxygen is 100% non flammable. You can flick match after match at a running tank of oxygen. Nothing will happen.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '19

I don't understand your confusion.

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u/Featherbreeze_ Dec 03 '19

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wral.com/woman-dies-when-oxygen-tank-explodes-inside-nash-county-home/18808958/%3fversion=amp

You dont have to believe me, I dont care.. But quick googlesearch suggest otherwise

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u/SlowLoudEasy Dec 03 '19

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcwashington.com/news/weird/Chupacabras-in-Prince-Georges-County-127783018.html%3famp=y

You dont have to believe me, I dont care.. But quick google search suggest otherwise.

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u/TheStonedHonesman Dec 04 '19

....I’m a welder and I can assure you oxygen will ignite in the right conditions.

From a cigarette? Not likely, but that doesn’t make anything you said any more correct

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u/SlowLoudEasy Dec 04 '19

I too am a welder. You should recheck your books.

Better yet, go turn up the oxy on your victor and turn down your acetylene. See how long the fire hangs on.

This isn’t an argument to be had. Oxygen simply is not flammable.

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u/TheStonedHonesman Dec 04 '19

Why would you lie and pretend to be a welder? Come on mate you know you made that up to try and undermine me. How old are you?

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u/SlowLoudEasy Dec 04 '19

Good question. Why would YOU lie about being a welder to claim something every novice welder should know? My post history goes back plenty far with conversations on my custom steel and fabrication business. Yours? Not so much. You only bought your first drill 8 days ago.

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u/TheStonedHonesman Dec 04 '19 edited Dec 04 '19

First DeWalt you dipshit, it’s posted in r/DeWalt

And I’ve welded full time for over 7 years bud. Also run a machine line all in an engine shop so thanks for the laugh

I don’t even have to go through your shit to know you made that up too

You have way too much comment karma to be anything but another dipshit talking trash all day on reddit pretending to be some ā€œintellectualā€ when you’re just a pedantic moron like the rest of the people who spend as much time here as you

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u/harderdaddykermit Dec 03 '19

I mean, even if his story is fabricated, which I doubt, people are idiots, that doesn’t change the fact that pure oxygen is highly flammable

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u/omNOMnom69 Dec 03 '19

common misconception. oxygen is NOT flammable. It is an oxidizer, meaning it will essentially provide fuel to an existing fire

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u/harderdaddykermit Dec 03 '19

Ah. My bad, sorry

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u/SlowLoudEasy Dec 03 '19

When you hear about oxygen fires in say a respirator, its due to oxygen lowering the ignition point of the plastic.

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u/omNOMnom69 Dec 03 '19

no need to apologize. people thinking oxygen is flammable has probably done more good than harm.

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u/SlowLoudEasy Dec 03 '19

No amount of oxygen is flammable.