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PEEK is flammable

jcb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jcb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Mar 30 00:19:12 1991

I was trying to heat a PEEK (polyethylethylketone) plastic
chromatography fitting to melt it onto some tubing and it caught fire.
It burned vigorously enough that I couldn't blow it out, and when I was
trying to get it into the sink it oozed out of the tweezers I was
holding it in, landed on my hand, and gave me a nice second degree burn.

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