How hazardous are chemicals released from over-heating/melting an aluminum vessel or

berrydeak17

[FONT=&quot]We melted an aluminum tea kettle for approx 30 minutes on an electric stove which was on high. It released smoke and an odor and proceeded to literally melt through the burner. How dangerous are the fumes for what period of time and......[/FONT]

penrhyn

Knock yourself out:

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts22.html

Volcano

While the fumes aren't particularly good for you, such a brief exposure is very unlikely to lead to any adverse health effects.

Assuming you opened a few windows and ventilated the area thoroughly at the time then you've got nothing to worry about.

timmmers

The navy found out that aluminium was very dangerous, BUT it has to burn not just melt. Same thing with light armoured vehicles. That's really severe though.
http://www.g2mil.com/aluminum.htm remember though, that's at several thousand degrees inside an ally box basically.

The only real harm that can come to you from ally is ingesting it as powder as with almost any metal ..and lots of it.

If there were any harm to come from ally ...would they make pans and utensils from it?
Nah.. they wouldn't be allowed to. :rotfl:

No need for concern apart from cleaning up the mess :mad:

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moonrakerz

timmmers wrote: »

The navy found out that aluminium was very dangerous,

The Navy DID NOT find "that aluminium was very dangerous" !

The only problem is that it softens at much lower temperatures than steel.
A certain class of RN warships got a lot of ill-informed publicity because they used a lot of aluminium in their construction. This adverse publicity was spread by the MoD because these excellent ships were not designed by the MoD.
The MoD tended to ignore facts like that they used aluminium ladders in their steel ships, so if they caught fire you couldn't escape. The steel Type 42s also had a huge great beam welded down the side to strengthen them.

The QE2 also had a lot of aluminium in it !

bryanb

When I was in the fire brigade (25 yrs ago) We found that before aluminium got to melting temperature in caravans/vehicles etc, all the occupants were dead from other causes.