I was referring to home heating oil burners. Instead of fluids I guess I
should have written liquids. Details!

Dennis

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>Oil burners will burn anything that remains
>fluid and can burn.

Coal dust? Plastic powder? These are fluids.

I guess coal dust would work if it coule be kept suspended. Plastics
wouldn't, because the complex molecules wouldn't burn completely and
the engine would soon be a gooey mess.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut