FOAK: Petrol

In an idle moment I was wondering whether petrol is oxygenated like
water is when it's stirred or in the case of petrol pumped into the
tank.
If so, would there be an increase or decrease in performance from a
freshly filled tank or would the oxygen levels be saturated any way
due to the carb/injector air mixture process?

Just wondering, as one does.

 

I don't have a definitive answer, but I can think of a simple home
experiment you could perform to investigate:

1) get two empty 2-litre plastic lemondate bottles (wash them out
first!) and half-fill each with petrol.

2) put the caps on both bottles, leave one to stand, and give the other
a vigourous shaking for 3-4 minutes

3) take the caps off, and hold a lighted match over the top of each
bottle, and see what happens.

HTH.

 

*Whoosh!*

 

*Whumph!*

 

Shouldn't it be 'lit' rather than 'lighted'? If not, why not?

 

*Where'd my eyebrows go?*

 

"lighted" is just an alternative to "lit" - there's no difference in
meaning - both are the instransitive forms of "light". But I feel that
because "lit" is also the past tense form, "lighted" gives more of a
sense of "still on fire".

 

In the 3rd Millenium, on 23 Sep 2004 01:40:51 -0700, "darsy"

Do you think I'm stupid or something?


I'll use my Zippo.