I see something...
...I say something...
...It is my duty*
They tell us when you see something, ...say something. I see something. ...I see my nation's camel's-nose government turning into a commie-style plantation-like dictatorship. ...I see decades of effort pursuing oxidant safety ignored in a somewhat similar fashion. I dissent to both and my detailed opinion will be presented here to allow download as an archive for however long this website lasts by anyone who's interested. Duty done.
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"...Let There Be Light..."
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BLW Dissent
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Barry L. Werley
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Yearly renewal possible but not certain.
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*Mike Pence has his duty, I have mine.
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I see something...
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BLW Dissent.
Oxidant Safety
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I am among few surviving charter members (1975) of American Society for Testing and Materials Committee G4 on Compatibility and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen Enriched Atmospheres. G4 launched as a collegial public-service to cope with fires and explosions in oxidant systems (first oxygen, but ultimately fluorine, nitrous oxide, ozone, etc.) both industrial and commercial. In its first two-plus decades, I participated diligently (1975-1999) as a corporate-sponsored member in developing its basic body of work. However, in retirement since then I have reached a tipping point. I dissent to its most recent two-plus decades of operation (2000-2026) during which G4 has retrenched and abandoned a good bit of its original mission in favor of a more academic exclusive closed-theatre clique among self-appointed cognoscente often debating angels on pin-heads. As a result some materials and perspectives (whether flawed or not) have been withheld (censored) from the voluntary oxidant safety community, oftentimes dubiously adjusted, and the progress has been minimal. I can no longer endorse G4's standards nor G4 itself notwithstanding the merit in its still incomplete body of work.
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Since retiring so long ago, I have felt almost totally disconnected (excluded indeed shunned from the G4 "consensus") despite a claimed dire need therein for labor and un-sponsored members, despite all the modern technology available, and almost inhuman levels of patience and deference notwithstanding. Substantial efforts to contribute remotely and even negative votes have been ignored or brusquely dispatched with at times mocking basis from that core cognoscente (The bullies on the G4 playground). I am concerned G4 may have deliberately stagnated and limited progress as a commercial ploy in the style of planned obsolescence, call it planned hazard.
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Although I do not claim omniscience nor perfection I do have a significant amount of pertinent experience to share. I do not respect a number of the choices G4 has made. As a result, I withhold my consent to current G4 and its works. I dissent to G4 and its parent ASTM. Hence I offer some perhaps final push-back here to these "bullies". Those inside or outside of G4 with a duty or desire for safe oxidant systems are free to consider these "as-is" and "use-at-your-own-risk" alternative perspectives, that are largely disdained and withheld from the voluntary community by current G4 leadership, and adapt any portion or ignore it all as you see fit in your own voluntary efforts to avoid fires and explosions and the resulting injuries and deaths, property damage, or disruption of your mission, ....and the concomitant lawsuits if you get it wrong or just have bad luck.
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I take oxidant safety seriously, more like a calling than profession. However, Oxidant safety is not settled science and therefore this peer-review/opinion is scrupulously detailed and archived here in my public-domain dissent/dossier digital-textbook portable-document-file: dooofes.pdf (First Edition) and its cited supporting resources and bases, which allow you to assess its merit or defect for yourself and you are free to view or download here during the term of this website and/or other places as may freely incorporate them. In this judgement they can help decide when to be suspect of G4 products and so may help save lives. I have placed these items in the public domain and are free to distribute (unchanged) any which way. And G4 is also invited to incorporate and/or adapt any portion to any degree if it ever comes to its senses.
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Many, maybe all, of the resources and opinions I cite would have been welcomed in the early and inclusive [full consensus] G4 community and would have been an excellent fit. However, I (and not I alone) abandoned G-4's symposia personally when its original inclusive no-fault peer review process and focus on saving lives and the like was unilaterally scrapped so that select territorial cognoscente could control and censor content. It marked the onset of the G4 make-over and worse. At that time two papers I was involved with were outright rejected (with incompetence the implied basis that created a destructive environment with a chilling affect on numerous associate's participation with G4 ever since). One paper was hard-fought and ultimately fully exonerated and published (it was my last) following several unpleasant and even hostile interactions over a protracted period. Something that was exactly what peer review should never be. The first paper (of even more protracted and hostile reception) as well as, several later papers (including papers from numerous associates) were later corporate published. A number of important efforts were corporate reviewed and published, some in retirement were associate reviewed and personally released, some were released without review, and some were previously available on an early personal website. Some are new and were prepared to support this dissent. Grievously, some materials are lost.
This website and digital textbook are first-edition efforts and as public domain resources are done-deals. Any new material, adjustments, typos or, supplemental corrections, opinions, videos or research, etc. are possibilities, and may form future editions but are very uncertain. The dooofes.pdf file and perhaps its supporting documentation files would have been made available at cost as a hard-copy public service on Amazon.com or other on-demand printing service but apparently would have required the launching of an onerous formal commercial company. That would have introduced untoward incentives and hassle. Alternative hard copy availability may yet be sought and/or tested if Amazon or alternative public-service methods become available. The file dooofes.pdf may be accessed and read on any pdf software reader, and is a pdf/x-1a format Adobe Acrobat 6.0 file "preflight-checked" for on-demand printing and the file dooofescover.pdf is similarly a preflight-checked cover file (for 50 lb paper) that has also not been tested yet but should also be compatible with current on-demand publication and may be downloaded below for anyone who might wish to attempt on-demand hard copies. Hopefully Amazon or another on-demand source will someday accept and catalog these public-domain files to allow bound hard copy purchases from them.
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Coming New ?/?/2026
Dissident Oxygen and Other Oxidant
Fire and Explosion Safety
(DOOOFES.PDF)
A Blunt Peer Review of ASTM/Committee G4
on
Compatibility and Sensitivity of Materials
In
Oxygen-Enriched Atmospheres
First Edition - ETextbook
(~80 pages, ?? MB, 2026)
dooofescover.pdf
50 lb paper
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Coming Support Postings
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-The NASA+ 800 Pound Gorilla
2026, 19 pages, ?? KB PDF
-Hazards of the ASTM/G4 Deplorable Peer Review System...
2026, 53 Pages, ?? KB PDF
-The Great Excess Oxygen Hornswoggle?
2026, 41 pages, ?? KB PDF
-Phase Issues in Thermo-Chemical Equilibrium Analysis
2026, 29 pages, ?? KB PDF
-....Computer Algorithms for Oxygen System Safety Analysis
2026, 14 pages ?? KB PDF
-Thermo-Chemical Equilibrium Data
for Oxygen System Fire Safety Analysis
2026, 40 pages, ?? KB PDF
-Oxygen Incident Clusters and Nightmares
2026, 4 pages, ?? KB PDF
-Antifreeze for Use In Noncontact Heat-Transfer Fluids...
2026, 9 pages, ??KB PDF
Bibliography for the
ASTM G4 Special Technical Publication contents
G4STPs.doc G4STPs.pdf
15 STPS, 2026,
48 pages, ??KB PDF
Partial Update of the
G4Ref14.Doc bibliography
Ref150426.pdf Ref150426.doc
2026, 114 pages, ??KB PDF, ?? KB DOC
-Oxidant Dissociation ...During Rapid Compression
Under Construction
for second edition
-TNT Equivalency Concepts Revisited
Under Construction
for second edition
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Earlier Retirement Opinions
(2000-2022)
All donated to public domain
regardless of any earlier copyright status.
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2022, 32 pages, 176 KB PDF
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2020, 118 pages, 2.8 MB PDF
containing the following five opinions
1. Intro to The Saga of ASTM Standard G 124
2. Drawing the Line on Fire Limits
3. Dissent and Protest to Revision of ASTM Standard G 124's Criteria...
4. A Challenge to the Fitness-for Use of Standard G 124-10...
5. ASTM Standard G 124 (2010, 2018 Versions) is Unfit for Use
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2019, 90 pages, 841 KB PDF
containing an introduction and the following eight opinions
1. Bizarro Ignition: Cosmic-Ray and Atom-Decay Induced Fires in O2
2. Bizarro Ignition: Real O2 Safety Science or Just Science Fiction?
3. Ideal Adiabatic Compression Traps
4. The Case for FLLAME in ASTM G-4
5. Technical and Human Factors Affecting Special Cleaning...
6. ...Suggestions for O2-Fire Incident Prevention and Investigations
7. Is Carbon Steel Both Over- and Under-Exploited in O2 Systems?
8. ...Comparison of the Fire Hazards of O2 with Other ... Oxidants
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2010, 31 pages 156 KB PDF
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2010, 24 pages, 136 KB PDF
2007, 2016, 138 pages, 1.5 MB PDF
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2007, 12 pages, 85 KB PDF
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2007, 88 pages, 432 K PDF
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Corporate References
(1995-1999)
Openly freely distributed but not in public domain.
If distro status changes, these references will be deleted here
and their content will be reviewed in a new paper.
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1999, 20 pages, 337 KB PDF
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1998, 17 pages, 83 KB PDF
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1998, 14 pages, 72 KB PDF
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