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Jet Fuel VS Diesel VS Gasoline how they burn and what color are they.

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What it is

A hands-on comparison of how jet fuel, diesel, heating oil, kerosene, avgas and gasoline burn and what color they are. It shows that gasoline ignites more easily than jet fuel.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as a practical demonstration that kerosene-type fuels are hard to ignite compared with gasoline.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “compares the flammability of several types of fuels.”

    Compares flammability of many fuels with timestamps

    sokoloff, 2022-03 · Recommendation · in “US schools can subscribe to an electric bus fleet at lower prices than diesel”

  2. “Great practical demonstration of the different flammability characteristics of some common fuels.”

    Practical demo of common fuels' flammability

    MertsA, 2022-05 · Recommendation · in “Is It Safe to Ship Thousands of Electric Cars on Big Ships?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: jet fuel, diesel, gasoline, flammability, kerosene

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