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On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:54:45 -0700, Tony Hwang
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I filled the gas on my lawnmower and spilled some gas on it
and it was dripping on my lawn. *I didnt want the gas to
kill my lawn so I quickly put on the gas cap and tossed a
match on the mower deck to burn off the gas. *Somehow the
gas in the tank started on fire too, and my mower exploded
and burned up, also burning down my garden shed. I only
wanted to burn off that spilled gas and I put the gas cap
on tightly. *Why did the gas tank explode and burn too?
Now my whole lawn is burned up and ruined. *I am really
upset. *I think the gas tank on th mower was defective, and
on Tuesday I am calling my lawyer to sue the manufacturer
of the mower.

Ralph W.
Tuesday is the best day to call lawyers.

Hmmm,
Fool's way of learning a lesson. Or poor troll.
Better call a lawyer who has same IQ as yours, LOL!

Most likely troll.

Almost surely.

*People who know, know that gasoline does not explode.

Wrong. *As usual. *Liquid gasoline burns; gasoline vapor mixed
with air explodes. *If the latter weren't true, then internal
combustion engines couldn't use gasoline.

Also that you need a higher temperature than a match to get it
to burn at all.

Wrong. *As usual. *A match flame is surprisingly hot, certainly
higher than the temperature at which paper burns, which as we
all know is 451F. *Matches don't give off much heat since
they're so small, but gasoline is highly flammable in the
presence of oxygen. Please don't try to confirm this on your
own.

even an air/fuel mixture of gasoline does NOT explode. *It burns
rapidly. *This is the reason the internal combustion engines
runs and does not explode. *you are wrong.

I was wrong once.

1967.

March.

First week.

If you'd like to argue that an air/fuel mixture of gasoline does
"NOT" explode, then you want semantics, down the hall, first door
on the left. This is abuse.

Steve is correct, there is no "explosion" involved in the internal
combustion engine. That isn't "semantics," that's using the correct
word.

I love it. *This really is the day for irony. *It's not "semantics,"
the poster says, just using the "correct" word.

Well, as long as it isn't semantics.

This thread has largely focused on the differences between the
two phenomena, so this isn't the time and place to use the terms in
a casually interchangeable way.

Which two phenomena? *Burning and exploding? *You don't say.

But, please, be sure not to define your terms. *We wouldn't want to
get into semantics. *Let's just say that putting a match to a pool of
gasoline gets you a quantifiably different phenomenon from putting a
match to a mixture of oxygen and gasoline vapor.

Liquids don't burn, Mr. Rat. When you put a match to a pool of
gasoline, you are igniting the vapors emanating from it.

Of course, and nothing I wrote says otherwise. *When you put a match to a
pool of gasoline, the phenomenon you get is the result of the combustion
of the vapors from the surface. *When you put a match to an enclosed
mixture of gasoline vapor and oxygen, you get a different phenomenon.

As far as the meaning of the words "semantics," "burn," and "explode,"
as well as the theory and operation of an internal combustion engine,
you're free to do your own research, or defend your own ignorance as
you see fit.

It's your claim that the words in use are in contradiction to their
meanings. *Thus the burdens of production and proof rest with you. *Your
refusal or inability to defend your position is noted.

Yes, I'm still beating my wife.

My understanding of "burn" and "explode" were passed on to me by my
father, a PhD university chemistry professor. You're free to assign your
own definitions to the terms, or pervert the dictionary definitions in
any way you like.

Based on that understanding, and the reading of many texts on
automobiles, I contend that the mixture of gasoline and AIR, which is a
far cry from OXYGEN, that *combusts* in an internal *combustion* engine,
does NOT explode. It uh, combusts. Burns.

"Nicht," I believe, is the spelling you were after in your humorous
slur. But you're as free to rewrite the German language as you are the
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"Machs" He will also have to rewrite that. I'd give him a clue but
apparently clues don't work for him

Harry K