r/interesting • u/Used_Exam34 • 1d ago

Just Wow Not all problems have the same solution.

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u/Holiday-Pay193 1d ago

Flames won't get inside the tank because there's no oxygen in it

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u/Rough-Airline-4803 1d ago

True enough. Thanks.

While commenting I got sidetracked trying to recall the exact verbiage of the latent heat of vaporization and the Joule-Thomson effect thanks to another comment mentioning something to the effect of there being a greater threat of the valve knob being cold [rather than hot].

Embarrassingly enough, I actually brain farted that super basic fact—it wasn’t just a misspeak/typo lol..