Aerosol Cans + Electricity?
So I had a can of Dustoff, and pretty much wasted the whole thing by turning it upside down and using it as freeze spray, freezing random stuff around the house not needing freezing.
Anyway, the can's now almost empty, which has me wondering... It has all sorts of warnings about how you had better not incinerate / puncture it. My first thought was that I could get my money's worth by trying to shoot it from a distance, but this plan was somewhat impaired by the fact that I don't own any sort of firearms, nor does anyone I know.
Tossing it into a bonfire and running like hell crossed my mind, but being a geek, I devised an even more insane plan... Rather than starting a fire, I want to use electricity to heat the can. I figure a couple 100' extension cords would give me plenty of distance... Then just two (thick, to carry a lot of current) wires attached to opposite ends of the (metal) can. Run it through a light switch, hook it all up with the switch off, and then flip the switch from a safe distance.
In reality, I think I'd just trip a circuit breaker. But what I'm wondering is... would I? Or would this lunatic plot of mine succeed? 15 Amps (what most of my breakers are at) at 120V could generate quite a bit of heat; how warm does a (mostly empty) aerosol can have to get before exploding? And how big of an explosion would ensue? Has anyone been insane enough to try 'incinerating' the aerosol cans, against the warning, to see what happens?