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> > > ... in space?
> 
> 	You'd have to ask the Russians. As long as the Americans use a pure
> Oxygen atmosphere (they did thru Skylab, and I believe they still do), this
> is one experiment that is not going to be done on the shuttle.
> 
> -- 
> 				Craig Werner
> 				!philabs!aecom!werner
> 		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"

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Actually, the astronauts on Skylab attempted to use some conventional
(i.e. no forced-air) gas burners to perform some mineral studies.  The
burners apparently kept going out.  I don't know about the wax melting
stuff...too low tech for NASA's taste I guess.  Now water bubbles....