Derek Lyons wrote:
"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote:

Of course then there is the Mir fire, where the "candle" WAS the oxygen
source and as such had no trouble burning.

It wasn't really a 'candle' (per se), but a source of pressurized
oxidiser and fuel. (I.E. the published descriptions sound to me like
the O2 candle was acting as a (small) SRM.)


More about the nature of SFOGs is showing up!

In newsgroups: sci.space.station,
Craig Fink posted messages with the following links:

Message-Id:

Diagram

http://au.geocities.com/kosmonavtka2/images/a4.gif

from this page

http://au.geocities.com/kosmonavtka2...ss.html#oxygen


Message-Id:

LiClO4 (Lithium Perchlorate)

http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/l7000.htm

LiCl (Lithium Cloride)

http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/LI/lithium_chloride.html


Thanks, Craig!

/dps