Re: Use of Nitrogen as a pipeline preservative

From: <Christopher>
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 00:34:00 EDT

> the gas neutralizes the oxygen to
>prevent the black scale debris

There's no chemistry involved. The nitrogen simply shields the fusion zone and keeps oxygen away. 

Christopher Wright P.E.    |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
chrisw@skypoint.com        | this distance"   (last words of Gen.
___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)
http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw Received on Fri Aug 27 00:34:00 2004

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