Gasoline Fumes

Safety - This video clip was filmed using a special camera (FLIR Gas Finder) that can see gaseous type fumes and hydrocarbon releases that the naked eye cannot detect, and is a good example of why you do not want to smoke, leave your automobile running or use/answer a cell phone while fueling your vehicle.
Sent out as a Safety Share at work.
Be Safe!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Safety
• Gasoline
• Fumes
• Smoking
• Cell
• Phone

[Harperlarp]

Damn, that's why you shouldn't smoke at a petrol station! Mobile phones don't hurt though, if tiny sparks from phones could set it off what about the spark plugs when you start your car? Mythbusters proved that you need a naked flame, even a lit cigarette thrown into a puddle of petrol didn't ignite it!

[zako104]

if you happen t refule youre lawn mower (with the thing you put the gas in poining up) you can see a distorted clear gas rolling over it

[arand4]

how old is this video???? the modern fueling stations have rubber bands on the fueling "thing yould on the hand" so nothing can come out while fueling. and the CellPhone Mith was totaly busted!!!!, Mythbusters tried it and it was impossible even with their help.

[DebeoMorium]

if cell blowns blue up gas stations we wouldnt have any gas stations left.

[whoarentyou]

ever fill your tank up after having it sit really low (like 1/8th full) for awhile? smell the fumes... yeah... they are dangerous...

but i dont see anything wrong with a cell phone, the insulation on it, limited voltage and almost nil chance of a short (especially an external short) don't matter... not that i talk on my cell phone much (barely at all, even less than i fill up on gas)

[Kauboy84]

oh shit!

[narcovice]

thats all waist of fuel in the day time night time you dont have those lost of fuel

[wbeaty]

> something about the coloring doesnt add up

It's because of missing IR colors in the gas. The gas with the missing color is "black" if viewed through a filter that passes *only* that color. The shirt and pants are black for a wider range, and hot objects glow white across a wider range.

If you had paint that lacked a specific green color, it would look almost white, but very slightly pink. But if you had sunglasses that passed only the special color, the same paint would look black.

[wbeaty]

> what is it that this camera does that picks up hydrocarbons

Most gases are strongly colored, but not at visible wavelengths. Also, their "colors" are caused by missing frequency bands which are very very narrow, and human eyes couldn't see them even if in the visible spectrum. But look at them through a narrowband filter which only lets through that one frequency, and the missing "color" looks very black.

[smokey351]

it seems like a hoax as well, judging from the fact that theoretically the camera is picking up frequencies and painting them accordingly yet it paints the man's shirt as black where theres a shadow and the gasoline vapors as black aswell. if it where only painting according to molecular structure then assuming the video and this camera are correct, denim is made out of a carbon chain with hydrogen atoms attached to it. something about the coloring doesnt add up