Fuel Flammability Properties
Discussions focus on the ignition behaviors, combustion characteristics, and safety myths of various fuels including diesel, jet fuel, hydrogen, liquid oxygen, and hypergolic propellants, with anecdotes like matches in fuel cans or cigars in puddles.
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No, it would ignite the liquid.
My friend's explanation was that if the really flammable stuff gets out, it's already going to be on fire anyway. He described a technician tossing his cigar butt in a puddle of diesel fuel to make the point. The fuel didn't catch fire.
ever watched someone extinguish a cigarette in gasoline? it's explosive, but in a narrow band of conditions.
If it was really an oxygen/fuel mix burning I don't think you can do much of anything to stop that.
You can throw a lighted match into a can of jet fuel and it will go out - try this with hydrogen.
That's liquid oxygen or liquid hydrogen cooking off.
The burning plume escapes upward. It's probably safer than aviation fuel.
It sounds like it's in a container, so it will likely explode when it burns. I wonder if they have some kind of pressure release system for those.
Could the flame be acetylene gas?
It'd take flammable vapor over explosive pack of batteries :)