On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 21:29:40 -0000 (UTC), Robert Bannon
wrote:

On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 15:51:54 -0500, wrote:

IF you could "dilute" gasoline 10 "1/10th" strength it would take 10
times as long to do the job, or only do 1/10 the job.

No. That's not correct.
More appropriately that's almost certainly not correct.
(but there is a very slight chance that it could be correct).

It all depends on the minimum effective dose (and on solubility of goop in
gas).

As an out-of-context example, of what I am telling you:
a. I can put out a lit match with a gallon of water.
b. Or, I can put out that match with a quart of water.
c. Or I can put out that match with a spoon of water.

If the minimum effective dose is a spoon, then the gallon of water is
overkill.

Let's take the LD50 for poisons as another example:
a. Let's say you can kill a rat with 1 ounce of warfarin.
b. If you use a pound of warfarin, you'll kill the rat.
c. But if you dilute that pound in half, you'll still kill the rat.
d. In fact, you can dilute that pound 1:16 and still kill that rat.

Same with using Acetone as nail polish remover.
You can dilute 100% acetone by a LOT where it still works fine.

The question we don't know the answer to is what the minimum effective
concentration of the solvents in gasoline that dissolve the goop.

I'm sure 1:10 is fine, but I don't know that for sure since I don't know how
to dilute the gasoline yet to test it out.
Get it through your thick skull.
IT CANNOT BE DONE.

This is the last you will here from me on this thread.