{"id":187280,"date":"2013-04-20T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/20\/bacon-its-not-just-for-breakfast\/"},"modified":"2013-04-20T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T01:42:00","slug":"bacon-its-not-just-for-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/20\/bacon-its-not-just-for-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacon, It&#8217;s Not Just for Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w9dskxN10N0\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>You can also use it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/bacon\">cut a hole through armor plate<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I recently committed myself to the goal, before the weekend was out, of creating a device entirely from bacon and using it to cut a steel pan in half. My initial attempts were failures, but I knew success was within reach when I was able to ignite and melt the pan using seven beef sticks and a cucumber.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">No, seriously. The device I built was a form of thermal lance. A thermal lance, typically made of iron instead of bacon, is used to cut up scrap metal and rescue people from collapsed buildings. It works by blowing pure oxygen gas through a pipe packed with iron and magnesium rods. These metals are surprisingly flammable in pure oxygen, releasing a huge amount of heat as they are consumed. The result is a jet of superheated iron plasma coming out of the end of the pipe. For sheer destructive force, few tools match a thermal lance. But iron isn&#8217;t the only thing that&#8217;s flammable in a stream of pure oxygen.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done some work with exothermic cutters, which are simpler than a thermal lance.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an iron tube.  You blow oxygen through it, and when you strike an arc, you ignite the iron, and the hot stream of oxygen which burns through whatever you are cutting.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, if you pass oxygen through a tube of <b>anything<\/b> which burns hot enough to start your target burning, and almost any metal or oil\/fat will in a pure oxygen atmosphere, you can cut through almost anything. <\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s neat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can also use it to cut a hole through armor plate: I recently committed myself to the goal, before the weekend was out, of creating a device entirely from bacon and using it to cut a steel pan in half. My initial attempts were failures, but I knew success was within reach when I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012,1025,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}