The Hindenburg was filled with flammable hydrogen but recent research suggests that hydrogen was not the primary matrial involved in its tragic demise

Use the octet rule to explain why powdered aluminum can behave as it is thought to have done in the Hindenburg disaster.

Powdered aluminum acted as it did to The Hindenburg because, it does not have a full octet of electrons. Since it does not a full octet, it is very unstable.