Product: Lighter
Salad Fuel Lighter   (+4)  [vote for, against]
This is a reach

Uses ClF3 to combust varous salad vegetables as a stupendously dangerous way of having a novelty lighter.

Small pressurised tank of ClF3, and a tube and indexing wheel for advancing a rod of carrot or cucumber or whatever into the combustion area.

Caution - creates horribly noxious fumes, may blow up for no reason.
-- Custardguts, Sep 28 2015

N-Stoff, or Chlorine TriFluoride https://en.wikipedi...hlorine_trifluoride
Part of any supervillian's chemistry set. Make sure to read the John Drury Clark quote under the heading Rocket Propellant. Then go out and find a copy of his excellent book "Ignition: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants" [Custardguts, Sep 28 2015]

Prior art? Skip to 0:53 if you like. https://www.google....aSTZTcvhyaitgnh_gJg
Sans ClF3, but not entirely unbaked either. [absterge, Sep 29 2015]

Incredibly foolish and ill-advised use of a dangerously reactive oxidising agent.

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-- 8th of 7, Sep 28 2015


pointless [+]
-- Voice, Sep 28 2015


Egregiously volatile [+].

I first read the description errantly as "This is research".
-- absterge, Sep 29 2015


Solid fool lighter.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 29 2015


Where does one buy this stuff... I have a couple of unshiftable stains that might benefit from being ignited.
-- bs0u0155, Sep 29 2015


// Where does one buy this stuff. //

That depends ... will Sir be paying cash ? Used notes, non-sequential numbers, nothing bigger than a $50 ...
-- 8th of 7, Sep 29 2015


They make notes of less than $50??
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 29 2015


Don't forget to eat your vegetables, [absterge]. But I gotta warn you, they carry a powerful punch.
-- blissmiss, Sep 29 2015


They make notes bigger than a $50?
-- bs0u0155, Sep 29 2015


Pre- or post- ignition? Either way, that would be "research" of the most frightening kind, [bliss], the kind best left to "volunteers".

Also, link.
-- absterge, Sep 29 2015



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