How to melt ice quickly

There is a spectacular video of how fast a thermite reaction can melt
through blocks of ice at www.mythbusters-thermite.notlong.com

Two clips showing the burning of different mixes of thermite and several
views of the melting process - it's quick!

-- 
Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS)
Buckingham, ENGLAND
Using Acorn SA-RPC, OS 4.02 with ANT INS and Pluto 3.03j

date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:32:09 +0000 (GMT) author: Rodney Blackall

Re: How to melt ice quickly

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 at 20:32:09, Rodney Blackall 
 wrote in uk.sci.weather :

>There is a spectacular video of how fast a thermite reaction can melt
>through blocks of ice at www.mythbusters-thermite.notlong.com
>
>Two clips showing the burning of different mixes of thermite and several
>views of the melting process - it's quick!

They must know that, the more they say 'don't try this at home', the 
more inclined people will be to do exactly that... :p
-- 
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:58:13 GMT author: Paul Hyett