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to: DON SHOEBRIDGE
from: DAN ARICO
date: 1996-05-29 18:33:00
subject: 20mm Pepleted Uranium

DS> Thermite is Aluminum?  I don't think so.  The Aluminum may get hot
DS> and melt just from the conversion of energy, but I don't think that
DS> it would *FLASH* like an incenderary round.  An incenderary round
Thermite is powdered aluminum and ferric oxide (rust to the non-
chemists). The reaction results in aluminum oxide and iron plus a lot of 
heat and light.
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