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  • I'd rather burn my ears off with an oxy-acetylene torch and fill the holes year-old skunk's vomit than listen to that insipid little foetus.

    Brit awards 2011: Take That win best British group 21 years after their debut 2011

  • As hot as an oxy-acetylene torch, it is used to melt iron beams and cut through them.

    New Scientific Study: Smoking Gun Evidence of 9/11 Explosives in WTC Dust 2009

  • If they have a cunning plan involving a can opener or oxy-acetylene torch or high explosives, we're doomed.

    Sunshine jhetley 2009

  • But a Hamas border guard interviewed by The Times at the border today admitted that the Islamist group was responsible and had been involved for months in slicing through the heavy metal wall using oxy-acetylene cutting torches …

    Hamas: 2, world: nil. 2008

  • But a Hamas border guard interviewed by The Times at the border today admitted that the Islamist group was responsible and had been involved for months in slicing through the heavy metal wall using oxy-acetylene cutting torches …

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • I can see a whole F'ing bunch of Santas and Father Christmases on rooftops this year, with with crowbars, pneumatic drills, oxy-acetylene torches, and sledge hammers, and they'll be scattered around the world, and it'll ALL be your fault, Beth!

    Epilepsy news and I am 'officially' a Pain on the BBC. Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • But a Hamas border guard interviewed by The Times at the border today admitted that the Islamist group was responsible and had been involved for months in slicing through the heavy metal wall using oxy-acetylene cutting torches.

    The Ex-Suspect 2008

  • Large quantities are also used in making synthesis gas for ammonia and methanol, ethylene oxide, and for oxy-acetylene welding.

    Oxygen 2007

  • Large quantities are also used in making synthesis gas for ammonia and methanol, ethylene oxide, and for oxy-acetylene welding.

    Oxygen 2007

  • The bracelet shrinking operation was quite impressive - chopping a bit of silver out, resoldering it, or perhaps proper big welding, anyway an oxy-acetylene torch was involved, then boiling it in acid and scrubbing it afterwards.

    Zmas, Ring, Brum, etc jackfirecat 2006

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