Did you know that if dry wire wool - think of discarded Brillo pads - comes into contact with a dead nine-volt battery, it can spontaneously combust? Or that dust - for that matter, even sugar or custard powder - can ignite and unleash a fireball? Or that air enriched with just three per cent oxygen is lethal - burning everything in its path at twice the normal rate?

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