From: Melissa Charlton-Smith
Nitric acid is aqueous, so how can it be flammable (in the Tripoli story)
Possibly someone who KNOWS told the reporter that it's an oxidizer and at
Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines from Google (12 articles)
Date: January 25, 2013 1:33:49 PM EST
certain concentrations can cause combustion in contact with combustible
materials....and the reporter took the short root to "it's flammable".