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		Samuel_Michon on Nov 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aluminium: The metal that just keeps on giving If anyone else was wondering, it was supposed to read ‘thermite’. (I had to DDG it, and then still, I had never heard of the stuff.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite

dllthomas on Nov 24, 2013 [–]

Thermite is amazing stuff. There's some thought that part of the reason the Hindenburg burned so much so fast was a thermite reaction in the stuff it was painted with:

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/hindenb...

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