Basic chemistry class tells us that there are three stages, frozen, liquid, and gas.
The thing you put into your car is clearly a liquid and the fumes aren't gas.
Let's call it petrol, not gas.
short for gasoline
sharefair point. it is, though, highly volatile.
shareBut the liquid isn't explosive, the fumes are.
shareok. the fumes are gasoline too :)
shareBut they're what actually cause the explosions of vehicles we see in movies. Gasoline can be ignited; fumes can create an explosion from the most miniscule spark, e.g., the simple striking of a match.
shareyeah, i get it. i studied general & organic chemistry in college. but if you want to continue to lecture me about these things, have at it.
shareI don't see how you could interpret a couple of brief, innocuous comments disagreeing with you as lecturing. A lot of people have a misconception about that reality. I did and had a close encounter with death because of it, hence the motivation for my post, not lecturing. I think your overly inflated and wounded ego is what it's really about.
sharethanks for sharing.
shareWhat about your close encounter with death ... that would have been a lot more interesting. I had an interesting experience with some barbecue lighter-fluid sold in Mexico that turned out to be gasoline. Soaked the briquettes and went in to light it and it blew up into a giant fireball in the kitchen. Thankfully it ignited when I was about 3 feet away from it. My arm hair got singed. I was lucky.
shareYou know exactly what I'm talking about then. I had a very similar experience with a pile of deadfall I was trying to burn in my back yard one fall. The impact of the blast knocked me back and I also had some hair and most of my eyebrows singed off.
As for the near death experience, I posted it here once. It's buried way back in my history somewhere. I might try to find it later or rewrite it.
You mean the fireball effects and only in really old movies, now it's all CGI. You use an explosive to vaporize the gasoline and the heat from that explosion to create a fireball effect. Real explosives create less fire and more bang, but you can't see shockwaves on camera.
It's always funny how movies have grenades being these giant containers of gasoline instead of the highly efficient killing devices they really are. That mostly harmless fireball isn't going to kill the enemy, but the shrapnel will. It's like "oh no, there are harmless fireballs being lit up around us, we're scared of getting a little singed!"
Let's not attempt to tell the Americans what to do or say, they are all pretty
nuts, I'm possibly the sanest of the bunch so that should tell you all you need to know
It does amuse me now shocked Yanks get when they learn people outside the USA do things different.
shareThat was a well meant joke with a poster I know quite well but don't always hit it off with, mind your fucking business
You should edit your posts 'now' meow ....dumbshit
And you'd be quite surprised how little any of us 'Yanks' give a damn what a bum like you or any foreign type who fails to act like a Gentleman has to say
Yeah, and we get enraged and go into denial when it turns our to be better than what we do here. So sad what my country has turned into. Of course it may just mostly be Russian Trolls pretending to be Americans.
shareOnly liberals are nuts.
shareLet's be honest, we're all a bit crazy at times
shareOf course. But liberals are crazy all the time. They don't take time off from crazy.
shareThat's most certainly not my tribe but debate and discussion separates us from the animals
Different ideas are not very frightening and a fair deal can often be struck
It's not always 'Us vs Them' trevor
I don't know who you are or where you live but it's very likely we've had a few run ins, you seem like the sort I've likely scuffled with at some point, let's just move on
Truth be told American politics is simply bananas now, a real bloody brawl with no room for dignified agreements and some concessions...
I'm glad the political sorts don't all have a nuke in their closet
We'd all be F'd!
Yes, it's bananas, another word for crazy. Liberals are crazy. What else do you call a group of people who claim rioting and looting is 'peaceful protesting'?
What do you call a group of people who spent the last year calling to defund the police and, when the polls went south, claimed it was the Republicans who wanted to defund the police?
I could go on but you get the point. They are absolutely bonkers.
There are loony liberals and kooky conservatives. It balances out.
shareHow pathetic is it that the Brits still haven't gotten over losing the Revolutionary War, so they resort to snide remarks about how English has evolved past their tiny island in the Atlantic. You lost, we won, get over it.
shareRight?
shareI'm almost certain that Intothenight is an Australian but no matter really...Did you know that some guy tried to touch him in the public pool bathroom or that he can communicate with birds? He's like our only X-Man here!
Lay off him
Don't bring politics into this because you know I'll have to teach you about that. This is about linguistics.
share"English has evolved"
I'd say 'evolved' is a very optimistic way of putting it.
It'd be fun for TriumphReq to go teach us about what evolution really is... but I'll start.
Evolution is not a linear process in which creatures reach an optimal place, evolution is a completely random process in which changes happen for no reason what so ever and due to the circumstances of the environment some changes simply happen to survive while others die off.
Too often, we try using a post hoc ergo propter hoc rationalization to claim a reason for a trait, but this is all wrong. Traits are purely random, some may survive due to favorable circumstances in the environment, some may simply fail to be eliminated. There is no underlying reason to evolution, it just happens.
Biology? I thought states of matter was chemistry, or more broadly, physics - solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.
shareSorry yes. Chemistry.
shareThese types of people think a chemist is someone who works at a pharmacy, they're not the sharpest knives in the drawer when it comes to the natural sciences.
shareTeacher time again. There is no such thing as "Petrol" either, not in the form as it comes out of the pumps.
Petrol is short for Petroleum or the raw crude oil that comes out of the ground.
When it is refined it is refined into several distillates called light distillates, medium distillates and heavy distillates.
LPG, kerosene, naptha, diesel and others.
Gasoline is one of them. "Gas" is short for gasoline. Gasoline also has several additives, whereas Petroleum doesn't. Gasoline is the distillate you put into your automobile, therefor "gas" is the more accurate term.
In the UK you're using incorrect English again and instead of calling what you put in your car petroleum, you should be calling it gasoline.
Here are some examples of those distillates
Light distillates
C1 and C2 components
Liquified petroleum gas (LPG)
Light naphtha
Gasoline (petrol)
Heavy naphtha
Middle distillates
Kerosene
Automotive and rail-road diesel fuels
Residential heating fuel
Other light fuel oils
Heavy distillates
Heavy fuel oils
Wax
Lubricating oils
Asphalt
Diesel is a precipitate of "petrol."
You need to go back to the way you used to speak like how most of the Americans and Canadians speak.
How Americans preserved British English
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english
This wonky lala way of speaking you picked up from the French because they began to drop a lot of letter sounds because they thought it made them sound more dignified. It was around about the time they whitewashed everything and made everything white and gave themselves huge nutritional deficiencies. White flour, white eggs, white rice, white sugar, white everything which is all just nasty. Iceberg lettuce which you call "salad" is also inaccurate. The only thing you say accurately anymore is herb.
So therefor the way you speak and call it petrol is giving you huge nutritional deficiency. j/k
petrol (n.)
"gasoline, refined petroleum used in motor-cars," 1895, from French pétrol (1892); earlier used (1580s) in reference to the unrefined substance, from petrole "petroleum" (13c.), from Medieval Latin petroleum (see petroleum).
Pretty lousy obnoxious opinionated lout for a teacher.
What's funny about this complaint is that dictionaries are descriptive, nor prescriptive. The definition itself admits that petrol refers to unrefined petroleum which has since evolved as a substitute word for gasoline.
shareOkay, well let’s talk about the British and potato chips.
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