@freemo How to they react, when mixed up in liquid state like that?
Even without an ignition source, I would be curious to know.
@design_RG I would expect them to be stable, but im not sure. If you pour LOx on asphalt then it will explode if you step on it I hear. So I could be wrong.
@freemo It is a curious thing, really. The liquid qill be really cold, and that might inhibit it from starting a flame immediately when contacting a combustible material like the asphalt. But it's pure oxygen.
I have read a book on rocket fuels, and it was quite interesting. The amount of difficulties they experienced while looking for better ones, most were dangerous substances; poisonous, unstable, nasty things.
Great book, the author is a Chemistry professor and had a dark sense of humour.
@design_RG A slightly better illustration, but without the autoignition temp itself. Still useful to get a mental picture though...
@design_RG Here we have coal against oxygen concentration itself, this is probably the most relevant chart I can find.