The Buddhists thought they had a good thing going, but didn't take into consideration how hot it got in Vietnam.
Posted on 05/24/2020 2:54:42 PM PDT by topfile
The Texas Department of Public Safety shared a photo from firefighters with the Western Lakes Fire District in Wisconsin. It shows serious damage to the driver's side door of a car that was caused by "hand sanitizer igniting in a hot vehicle that reached 95 degrees Fahrenheit inside the vehicle."
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It’s alcohol and it can’t “explode”. If you vaporized the alcohol and it was the correct concentration then a spark or ignition source will make it pop. But if it’s ethanol, the autoignition temp is about 700F and nothing in an auto interior gets that hot.
Bogus article.
Just great. Your own personal fuel air bomb.
If you parked in the sun, rolled up the windows, smeared hand sanitizer everywhere on the upholstery/ceiling/floor, and cracked a cylinder of oxygen while playing with a cigarette lighter, you might be in trouble, otherwise, the chances of explosion are close to nil.
I guess the gallons in the trunk are a bad idea then...
The photo of that car’s damage made the rounds a few days earlier, but if you read the explanation it wasn’t an “explosion”, it was the clear bottle and liquid/gel acting like a magnifying glass and setting the fabric of the inner door panel on fire. The same problem has been mentioned before, related to leaving bottled water in the car. Freak accident (though in Dallas during the summer, I’d expect the alcohol content to be cooked out of an opened bottle of hand sanitizer pretty quickly if left in a car).
Can masks explode too?
I call bullshit.
Just waiting for an episode of “Myth Busters”...
I know a Dr. Pepper will certainly explode in the July Georgia sun. Got in my car after leaving it parked at my friends for a day. I wondered what that residue was all over the inside of my passenger side window.
I looked it up, the explosive limits are 3.3% vapor to 19% vapor, outside these limits no “pop”.
As an amusing aside, if you (responsibly) empty a vodka bottle, if you drop a lit match down the bottle it will go Whoosh! with a blue flame. Don’t try with 151 rum.
Unsafe at any Speed including Parked with our mediots!
OK, I made that up.
What absolute bullshit our press has become.
Maybe the car was a Tesla
The Lower Explosive Limit for Isopropyl Alcohol and Ethyl Alcohol are 2.2% by volume. Your hand sanitizers is typically 70% alcohol by volume. There is no way a 4 ounce bottle of hand sanitizer (3 ounces of alcohol) completely evaporated would come anywhere near the LEL.
Many people in the hot south have kept sanitizer in their cars for decades with no problems.
This is a ridiculous assertion written by somebody who probably had one science class in high school.
“I guess the gallons in the trunk are a bad idea then...”
Careful now, that is how I pay for our weekly grocery pickup.
I pop the trunk and sell 2 ounces of homemade stuff for $10 if they have a refillable bottle. $12 for the stuff in a new bottle.
The 25 gallons in the fuel tank are an even worse idea.
Had a small bottle in the center arm rest for years and all that happened was the plastic broke down from the cold/heat
Correct!! The burned out door photo was revealed not to be the result of hand sanitizer. Just another attempt to scare folks.
The Buddhists thought they had a good thing going, but didn't take into consideration how hot it got in Vietnam.
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