Kotovsky, comments to the article on paraffination of chains.
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3) How I extinguished paraffin with water. I forgot the oven. He warmed and burned. I went to the kitchen and it was burning. I water there! He is like fucks! Falling into overheated, much above 100 degrees, paraffin, the water instantly turned into steam. The steam obviously expanded, compared to the source water. The expansion of the steam resulted in the spraying of the burning paraffin in the form of small drops of several meters, mainly upwards. Since the surface of the paraffin in the form of droplets has increased many times, it reacts with air oxygen quickly oxidized with the release of a large amount of heat and light.