[C320-list] Seward 2 Burner Stove Not Lighting

Stephen Cox scox at timmin.com
Thu Jun 8 01:08:53 PDT 2017


> Natural gas is not less dense than air as far as I am aware?
> Only helium and hydrogen are used to inflate balloons and 
> airships Hydrogen was used in the Hindenburg!
> Many yachtsmen in the U.K. Refuse to use gas on board and 
> have stoves that run on alcohol or similar flammable spirits Graeme
> 

I remember in my 5th year of school we made cube shaped balloons from
plastic sheet stuck together with sticky tape, filled them with gas from the
bunsen burner outlets in the craft room, and let them fly off into the wild
blue yonder.  Definitely natural gas i.e. coal gas, in use there.

The UK yachtsman would presumably be using Calor gas bottles or similar
which contain propane, butane or a mixture thereof.  This gas would be
heavier than air. 



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