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To: thackney

Gasoline will burn, but to explode like that?

You’d need to deploy it like a fuel air bomb.

Wouldn’t you?


71 posted on 08/12/2015 11:57:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion)

http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/print/volume-155/issue-4/features/bleve-facts-risk-factors-and-fallacies.html


74 posted on 08/12/2015 11:58:53 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: BenLurkin

Get it hot enough and the vapor pressure will rupture the container. That can take off spectacularly, even large cylindrical tanks will go like a rocket.


83 posted on 08/12/2015 12:13:20 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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