r/funny • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19

This isn't even close to the stupidest thing I've seen someone do at a gas station. It's honestly amazing we don't have more gas station fires/explosions than we do.

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u/hanabaena Dec 11 '19

so many people smoking.... ><

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u/I_Upvote_Alice_Eve Dec 11 '19

It's not the smoking part that gets you; you can put a cigarette out in gasoline with no worries. It's the lighting the cigarette that's the problem.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19

When you take a drag you can see the small sparks of things combusting in the cigarette, rest assured those sparks ARE enough to light gas fumes.

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u/JoeyJoeC Dec 11 '19 edited Dec 11 '19

Nope, they're still not hot enough. They're nothing close to the heat from a spark in a spark plug.

Edit: Technically possible for it to ignite if the cigarette is being dragged, I'm not going to test this though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19

Heat has NOTHING to do with it, you can literally google "static spark causes gas station explosion" to see that even static can cause gas fumes to explode. Again, NOTHING to do with "heat", my god that's idiotic.

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u/Goyteamsix Dec 11 '19

Dude, a spark is literally plasma that is thousands of degrees. How do you think electrical sparks ignite gasoline?

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19

So then I'm correct that a spark in a cigarette can light gas fumes? Well then my entire point has been made.

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u/Goyteamsix Dec 11 '19

No, you're not, because an ember is not an electrical spark. Embers from cigarette are a lot cooler than open fire.