In a message dated 01/11/97 04:14:03, you write:
<< It has no precise melting point. It starts to go soft around 130 deg C >>
Even before that it is soft enough to form it. I have just immersed a 2"
strip (too painful to tell you where it came from) in boiling water and you
can then without significant force bend it into a 1" radius.
At the other end,of the scale if you touch it into a gas flame it ignites
gently and very slowly burns back at the edges with a yellow flame, forming a
sticky mess with some carbonisation and a quite pleasant smell. Cut to shape
(spelling "hatches closed" ?) it would make a nice safe pyrotechnic for
Nov.5th.- might as well get some use out of it (:-))
Graham C G-EMIN
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