THE VIDEO SHELF · fuel flammability
Jet Fuel VS Diesel VS Gasoline how they burn and what color are they.
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 HN readers recommended it
HN cites it as a practical demonstration that kerosene-type fuels are hard to ignite compared with gasoline.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Just Think
- Topic
- fuel flammability
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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[VIDEO] compares the flammability of several types of fuels. 2m08s for Jet-A. 3m50s for #2 diesel. 6m03s for heating oil. 7m30s for kerosene (all those are basically the same and surprising to most how not flammable they are in liquid form). 10m15s for avgas. 11m30s …
sokoloff on Hacker News · 2022-03
In US schools can subscribe to an electric bus fleet at lower prices than dieselIt still doesn't burn well unless it's in a fine mist. Even just a puddle of diesel is actually quite difficult to get burning on its own without some other material as a wick of sorts. [VIDEO] Great practical demonstration of the different flammability characteristics …
MertsA on Hacker News · 2022-05
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