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Originally Posted by tiger.1000
A notice to all cigarette smokers. Drop a lighted cigarette in to a can of petrol. The petrol will extinguish the cigarette as there is not enough heat to ignite the fuel.
However, maybe US petrol and cigarettes aren't the same as UK versions ?
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Gasoline as a liquid does not burn. Vapors do. The cigarette will ignite any vapors on top of the gas but the liquid does not burn. Why a flooded motor will not start. The heat will make more vapors though. Someone refilling a fuel tank they replaced a pump on ignited a 10 gallon container using a regular electric pump. I just put a nearby piece of sheet metal over it to suffocate it. Water will not extinguish a gasoline fire.