Group: sci.energy
From: "Stephen Sprunk"
Date: Monday, October 01, 2007 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: Oxygen fuel

"Punjab The Sailor Man" wrote in message
news:47017c02$0$15419$4c368faf@ ...
>A cutting torch runs on pure oxygen. Why can't an engine run on
> just oxygen?

Oxygen isn't a fuel -- it's what you use to oxidize ( . burn) the fuel.

The only torches I've worked with are oxyacetylene ones -- pure oxygen used
to burn pure acetylene.

S

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