Why malt dust is dangerous...

[prrriiide]

http://a860-nycma.nyc.gov/luna/servlet/detail/RECORDSPHOTOUNITARC~17~17~542661~109816:deg_36?sort=Identifier%2CFormat%2CType%2CCurators_Choice

That's a big oops.

EDIT - pic won't embed...

 

[Andrew5329]

Now I'm going to have a nightmare about my LHBS exploding in a firey, grainy, ball of death. Thanks for that.

 

[Pumbaa]

any grain dust can cause a situation like that . . . hence the reason silo fires scare the hell out of me
want to see something even scarier? throw a handful of dry non dairy creamer in the air over a flame . . .

 

[Homercidal]

any grain dust can cause a situation like that . . . hence the reason silo fires scare the hell out of me
want to see something even scarier? throw a handful of dry non dairy creamer in the air over a flame . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWdZNCunrC0

Aw yeah!

I'm totally doing this next time we go camping!

Also, did you know that orange rind is flammable? Peel an orange and strike a match. Bend the peel so the cells on the outside burst and spray into the flame. poof! (ish)

 

[CreamyGoodness]

"This is where I met the leprechaun. He tells me to burn things!" ~Ralph Wiggem

 

[Hang Glider]

mythbusters non-dairy creamer... incredible. If YouTube yanks the link out of commission, just google mythbusters non-dairy creamer...

 

[Zen_Brew]

Sweet! I gotta get one.

 

[TyTanium]

So you're saying I shouldn't crush my grain right next to my propane burner heating my strike water...interesting.

 

[motobrewer]

won't regular flour do the same?

 

[barneygumble]

won't regular flour do the same?

Yes, it will. Any flammable solid, finely atomized with oxygen and exposed to a flame will burn like mad. My other hobby is rocketry, and we use hybrid technology to light a grain (basically a big piece of pourous polymer plastic) using Nitrous Oxide. Here is what happens when you expose a flammable solid to lots of O2 and a spark: