[at-l] Flameless Heating kit???

[greyowl at rcn.com (greyowl@rcn.com)]

There are many chemical reactions that generate heat, but 
the most interesting also generate flame and smoke (and 
pissed off major professor's)

Grey Owl

>   Does anyone read this stuff before typing. Shelly
>   wants to know about making her own home version of
>   this. I believe there are a few sites that show you
>   how to make things on the market... mostly things
>   like twinkies and cupcakes... but I will begin my
>   search now my tenacious one. As for the other
>   things, it is not 100 degrees C, nor does it boil
>   for 20 minutes. It increases the temperature by 100
>   degrees F and it takes place over 20 minutes. I take
>   this to mean that it slowly begins heating and, over
>   the following 20 minutes, will eventually get to 100
>   degrees higher than the temperature at which it
>   started. I could be wrong, but that seems to be what
>   both the site and Shelly's post say. Now, knowing
>   that water boils at 212 F might seem to make this
>   item a little weak, but at the top of a mountain the
>   temperature at which water boils will drop. So,
>   assuming that the temperature is around 70 F, and
>   you mix up a batch of this mountain stuff, it wil! l
>   increase the temperature to around 170 F, at which
>   point I have no idea whether it would boil or not.
>   Anyone know the boiling point of stuff at the top of
>   any of the mountains on the AT?
>
>   Leslie Booher <lbooher@pure.net> wrote:
>
>     I believe that whoever initially posted this ment
>     100 degree
>     Centigrade which is the boiling point of water at
>     sea level.
>
>     Grey Owl
>
>     But, do you want your food to boil for 20 mins? It
>     doesn't sound like something you can turn off and
>     on. anklebear
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