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by Maxwell
Thu Jun 15, 2017 12:03 pm
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: Smoking at the Pump
Replies: 30
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Re: Smoking at the Pump

jmorris wrote:
bdgyeah wrote:Took a college course once where a professor extinguished a lit cigarette in cup full of gas. A cigarette burning by itself (not inhaling) does not burn hot enough to ignite gasoline. Just useless knowledge.
I've seen people do that and it works well as long as there aren't a lot of fumes. I've also seen what happens when there are a lot of fumes, such as at a gas station.
Gasoline as a liquid and the gasoline fumes are two different things. As a liquid it requires an open flame, on the other hand fumes can be ignited with a spark.

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