Saturday, December 17, 2011

What is the reason that oxygen react with oil and grease?

what is the scientific reason that the oxygen in high pressure cylinders may react so swiftly with grease, oil and other contaminant and may ignite and create explosion, as for fire there needs to be heat of sourc of ignition, whereas we here have only oxygen and contaminent which is oil or grease, where does the heat or ignition come form which may make an explotion of cylinder? how does oxygen reacts with grease chemically ?

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