| Aside from being very dense and pyrophoric, depleted uranium shells also have a nasty tendency to vaporise. |
| Dr. Edward Ough: If I can say one thing here, the other thing to note is the fact that depleted uranium, or uranium metal, is pyrophoric. |
| Silane is an extremely hazardous pyrophoric gas that has caused operator fatalities in solar cell manufacturing. |
| It's pyrophoric, meaning that it can spontaneously combust with a little bit of oxygen and some heat. |
| One of the oldest uses for praseodymium is in the manufacture of misch metal, a pyrophoric metal used to make lighter flints and tracer bullets. |
| Misch metal, which contains a high proportion of cerium, is used to manufacture pyrophoric alloys. |
