[TheForge] Vapor/Gas

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

On my first gas station job , there was a "mechanic" who spent many idle 
hours tossing lit matches into a bucket of gasoline , all the while 
saying to anyone who reacted..." See, it's safety  gas anymore".....
Thin crescent moon showing through the clouds over the Pacific......PF

Phlip wrote:

>Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
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>>I've been told that GAS-oline does not burn.  But the gasoline VAPORS do.
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>>Is propane in the container liquefied petroleum gas?  And when it is
>>released from the container as a gas it is Propane vapor????
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>>Excuse me, while I go drink too much coffee!!!
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>>Sunny and Cold on the west side of Puget's Sound.
>>Jeff
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>About anything will burn, if it can conveniently bond with O2, and you apply
>enough heat and O2, but with gasoline, there's an old trick, only to be done
>on cold days, when the vapors aren't in evidence, where you can put a
>cigarette out in the gasoline. It does work, I've seen it, but you won't
>catch me doing it ;-) What happens is that the vapors catch, heating the
>liquid, which then releases more vapors. I think the liquid gasoline  is too
>dense to have enough O2 to catch ittself, but as the vapors are released,
>they pull in O2, and you have your fire. It doesn't take much heat to
>release the vapors, either.
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>Saint Phlip,
>CoDoLDS
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>"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
> Blacksmith's credo.
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> If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
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>Never a horse that cain't be rode,
>And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
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