• Platomus@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      No it’s not. It’s harder to catch fire than gasoline.

      It still catches fire easily.

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        You can toss a lit match into a puddle of diesel and the match will go out. Diesel burns, but since it doesn’t evaporate as fast as gasoline, you don’t have those flammable gases hanging in the air. A trail of diesel that’s being burned at one end will not spread, unlike gasoline.

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        Gasoline doesn’t burn that easily, either. Cars with gas tanks don’t burst into flames while sitting powered off in a garage. Even when they get wrecked they don’t usually burst into flames.

        On the other hand, gasoline is slowly causing the world to burst into flames…

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          Well yeah… You need a spark to cause a fire. To have ignition you need oxygen, fuel and a spark.

          Nothing burns easily if there’s no spark.