Sean, if you have anything preventing the chemical chain reaction for 
oxidation, you better have a good grip on The Tetragrammaton, not any 
tetrahedron. I bet you do not know what that is. 

On Tue, 10 Sep 96, "Sean T. Stevenson" <ststev@UV*.CA*> wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Sep 1996 17:48:24 -0700, gmiii@in*.co* wrote:
>
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>>  Discovery Channel, and I was wondering when myself. Three things are needed 
>>for combustion: heat, fuel , and rapid compression. 
>
>	Actually there are four necessary elements, the absence of any one of
>which will prohibit combustion:  heat, fuel, an oxidizing agent (most
>commonly oxygen, however combustion can be created in a Chlorine
>atmosphere, for example), and a chemical chain reaction.  This fourth
>element makes up the fire tetrahedron, and it is by eliminating this
>chain reaction that a Halon fire extinguisher works.
>
>-Sean
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