in reply to feld

@SrRochardBunson
Mythbusters covered this years ago, any kind of aerosolized carbohydrate can make a big fireball (they used coffee creamer to test the myth). Not recommended to try at home.
youtu.be/yRw4ZRqmxOc
in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson

@SrRochardBunson If you look up "grain elevator explosion", there're a few news reports per year of one blowing up randomly. So it's frequent enough that they put a lot of work into mitigating the risk factors.
knobelsdorffenterprises.com/gr…