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To: Docbarleypop

A pump and garden hose at an average of 2 gallons per minute would take over 76 hours to fill the truck.

The best way to get a big explosion, though would not have the truck full of gas, mostly fumes. I've heard the fumes of 1 gallon of gasoline have the explosive power of 8 sticks of dynamite in the right air/fuel mixture.


73 posted on 07/12/2004 12:04:06 PM PDT by Fierce Allegiance ( "Stay safe in the "sandbox", cuz!)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
One more time for the record... many if not most tanker trucks have pumps that will allow them to draw a vacume on the tank. So that the truck can "suck" fluids into them.

Secondly.. a truck full of fumes is more LIKELY to explode, but a truck full of liquid will make a LOT bigger bang IF it explodes.

77 posted on 07/12/2004 12:06:53 PM PDT by kjam22
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