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Default Transporting 20 gallons of gas in your trunk and storing in yourback yard in the open air question

On Jul 22, 1:07*am, "Steve B" wrote:
Then there are BLEVE's, or boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion, which
is called an explosion, but it is just still another rapid combustion, but
these usually occur within vessels that keep the pressure in until something
lets go.


Steve


If you're going to get nitpicky, I will too. A BLEVE is a mechanical
explosion; it does not require combustion at all. Water can BLEVE in
the right container, as the Mythbusters have proven.