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Originally Posted by 90503
...Just for drill, I'd say the more you look at aircraft, or even NASA (lol), if the technology gets put into cars...all the better....
As for safety....it's the manufacturing, machining and fabricating where you gotta be careful with magnesium...it is a different animal...By the time it gets to the cars, though, no worries...
As far as fires in cars and health and safety, there's bigger fish to fry with plastics, composites, and batteries than with aluminum and magnesium...lol...
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The danger with magnesium is how reactive it is when burning. If it touches water, it causes showers of sparks and flames because of the hydrogen it emits.
Water bottle thrown onto burning VW engines:
Actual firefighter incident with exploding magnesium SUV structure: