Thursday, August 04, 2022

[anpqqnyj] car gasoline explosion

if a full tankful of gasoline were completely vaporized then combusted with a stoichiometric quantity of pure oxygen, how large of an explosion would it produce?  how badly would the car and surrounding landscape be damaged?

slightly less violent: air instead of pure oxygen, a fuel air bomb.

Hollywood likes to depict cars massively exploding after the tiniest damage to their gas tanks.  do Mythbusters-style entertainment: cheat (by vaporizing the gasoline, etc.) and try to recreate the effect.

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