Talk:Spontaneous combustion

Static build-up?
Worth including this article? Mentions SC at the end. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4252692.stm 135.196.2.145 (talk) 14:53, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Additional Materials
I'm not sure if the following reactions qualify as spontaneous combustion (if not, perhaps an expert can add a paragraph to the article, explaining the difference): -- 172.191.162.149 (talk) 03:10, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Many rocket fuels (such as hydrazine + dinitrogen tetroxide) ignite on contact with each other, no igniter needed; see Hypergolic propellant.
 * Plutonium shavings may be pyrophoric, which is a special problem because the smoke is toxic.
 * Hydrogen + chlorine ignite on contact with each other (but allegedly, photons are necessary to ignite the mixture). (Source: a chemistry professor)
 * There is a lot of stuff which is prone to self combustion ("pyrophoric"), e. g. silanes, phosphanes, alkali metals, white phosphorous, organometallic compounds (e. g. butyl lithium), finely divided iron, activated hydrogenation catalysts (like palladium on charcoal) and so on. But hypergolic mixtures are usually not considered as self combusting neither is a chlorine + hydrogen mixture. --FK1954 (talk) 14:44, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Affected Materials
The cited article [5] has no content about motor oil. It covers coal. Someone with specific experience and expertise in this should review that claim. Photoleif (talk) 22:09, 13 February 2012 (UTC)Leif (photoleif)

The 'Oil seeds and oil-seed products' section doesn't make sense, and seems to have nothing to do with combustion. I don't know how to flag that section as needing correction. AnswerManDan (talk) 17:46, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

About template needs to be added
There's an episode with the same name from South Park (Spontaneous Combustion (South Park)). For this the About template should be probably added. Could somebody who knows more about this add it? Thanks. Soeb talk&#124;contribs 10:42, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

"Oily rag" redirect
"Oily rag" is currently a soft redirect to Wiktionary. Should it redirect to this article instead? --SoledadKabocha (talk) 22:40, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Hay
"As hay varies by the type of grass and location grown utilized in its preparation, it is very hard to establish a unified theory of what occurs in hay self-heating." - is it just me or does the first part of this sentance make no sense? Yevad (talk) 03:34, 9 July 2020 (UTC)


 * It's not just you. I noticed that too and was going to deal with it but then forgot. I'd just swap it round a bit: "As hay varies by the type of grass utilized in its preparation and the location where it is grown, it is very hard..." ? Rodney Baggins (talk) 07:06, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Buffalo Jump at Pecos River, 800 BCE
Add a section on the potential spontaneous combustion of up to 800 buffalo after a jump? The diggers are inconclusive on whether the burn was intentional, but lean towards spontaneous.

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