I read in sci.electronics.design that Bill Sloman
wrote (in ) about 'CB
Radios, Cellphones and Gasoline Vapor Ignition', on Wed, 24 Mar 2004:

Not an experiment I'd recommend. Acetylene is thermally unstable, and
cylinders of compressed acetylene contain kieselguhr

http://www.nobel.se/nobel/alfred-nob...kieselguhr.htm
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for exactly the same reason that nitroglycerine is only commercially
available adsorbed onto kieselguhr.

Ozone is is also thermally unstable, and I don't think that it is
commercially available at all (with or without kieselguhr).

There have always been macho physicists and chemists who wanted to push
the envelope of risky experiments; Moissan, for example, who made
diamonds (not very good ones) by quenching white-hot hollow iron ingots
with carbon inside. Who was it who first produced titanium metal from
the oxide with the aid of potassium vapour?

Ozone has certainly been liquefied: it is a very deep blue, almost
black. Acetylene can't be liquefied at atmospheric pressu the solid
sublimes (turns to gas) at -84 C.

Mixing liquid acetylene and liquid ozone could produce a very loud
report -

Particularly as it would have to be done in a pressure vessel!

a mixture of charcoal and liquid oxygen used to be used as a
commercial explosive.

Pure hydrogen peroxide is another nasty liquid - the British, and more
recently, the Russians have had cause to regret using it as a torpedo
fuel.

Was the British torpedo fuel *pure* H2O2? It would seem at first sight
unnecessary.
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