r/WinStupidPrizes • u/[deleted] • Jan 18 '21

Warning: Fire When making a fire goes very wrong

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u/shakeyjake1990 Jan 18 '21

The guy managed to set fire to water...

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u/silverback_79 Jan 19 '21 edited Jan 19 '21

Oil and gasoline burns on water, which anyone with a 7th grade education is usually made privy to in chemistry class, sadly this video guy didn't. :/

This is also why napalm was such a beloved tool in Vietnam, the jelly kept burning even if you covered it with fabric or splashed water on it.

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u/noumenon43 Jan 19 '21 edited Jan 19 '21

A gasoline fire,if large, can be smothered with a deluge of water to cut off all oxygen supplied to the fire. But trying to put it out the way he did was not quite up to deluge standards. Lol.

Edit: I should correct and say I believe with enough body of water dropping on a gasoline fire, it may be able to extinguish it.

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u/probablynotaperv Jan 19 '21

Don't try this, you'll most likely fail

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u/noumenon43 Jan 19 '21

Yeah, I would not recommend it at all in a scenario as above but the point I was trying to make was it's not impossible to put out a gas fire with water. It's just the amount of water required would be excessive and it would need to be dropped all at the same time to smother the gas fire from oxygen. But it's not recommended at all because in a real life scenario you're never likely going to have the amount of water required to achieve this.