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To: maceng2 who wrote (52494)	8/21/2004 12:11:59 PM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 74559

>>>Half a cup of Gasoline vaporized in air is equal to several sticks of dynamite in explosive power. We use that all the time though. <<, Yes, the willingness of the public to accept tanker trucks full of gasoline on the highways astonishes me when I think about it. But gasoline has a very pungent smell, and as long as you keep a lid shut fairly tightly, you are not likely to end up with an explosive gasoline/air mixture. I have a brother-in-law who bought a kerosene lantern for a camping trip and filled it with gasoline. It didn't explode, but after a minute or two the gasoline began to boil and shot out in a great column of fire and smoke. Luckily the lantern was on the ground away from anything else.