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← HistoryWhich risk increases when components degrade during Byzantine Greek fire preparation?
A)Increased premature reactor core meltdown
B)Uncontrolled exothermic runaway reaction✓
C)Decreasing catalytic surface area exposed
D)Lower oxidizer diffusion and flow rates
💡 Explanation
Unintentional heating of the mixture leads to amplified, and increasingly-violent exothermic reactions, because a runaway reaction from unstable ingredient ratios overcomes any moderating factors, therefore the mixture has potential instability, rather than gradual power loss due to component surface inefficiencies..
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