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Soda Locomotive

2 points| Clepsydra | 6 years ago |en.wikipedia.org

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Pick-A-Hill2019|6 years ago

"In a soda locomotive, the boiler was jacketed by a container loaded with several tons of caustic soda, or sodium hydroxide. Water was added to the caustic soda to start a violent exothermic reaction giving off enough heat to boil the water inside the boiler". Um, yeah I bet it did!