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Re: How can an oxygen tank explode?

Eric Lane wrote:

How can an oxygen tank explode?

It can't, at least not without first pumping hydrogen or some other
combustible into the tank.

In the example given, the combustion, and therefore the explosion, occurred
outside the tank.


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