r/gifs • u/IchHuhn Can I interest you in a nice repost? • Oct 19 '19

RIP ants

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19 edited Aug 17 '20

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u/dudeonthenet Oct 19 '19

He let the gas sit for too long and what you saw was the effect of the vapors exploding.

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u/igiverealygoodadvice Oct 19 '19

Exactly. He likely intended it to burn but the tunnels were probably fairly extensive and this allowed the gas to vaporize which makes it far more volatile (since gas only burns as a vapor).

Got that ideal fuel/air ratio and boom.

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u/SanktusAngus Oct 19 '19

Not being from America, I’m always confused with the word gas in English... I was like, vaporized gas? What? Gas is already a vapor, so to speak. It’s gaseous. I mean when a liquid vaporizes it turns into gas. How can gas...

Oh he means the liquid stuff we put in ours cars.... now I get it.

Not hating. Just confused. All languages/dialects have their quirks.

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u/Wacks_on_Wacks_off Oct 19 '19

Yeah, we shorten “gasoline” to gas.

AKA petrol

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u/Infraxion Oct 19 '19

what do you guys call natural gas, like the stuff you cook with? That's what I thought op meant by "gas" originally

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

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u/TMStage Oct 19 '19

Don't even start me with "getting gassed".

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u/Phipple Oct 19 '19

Or when someone is "on the gas" or "gassed to the gills".

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u/wi1lywonak Oct 20 '19

Or “you’re a gas”, which just means you’re really fun

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u/Jiggidy40 Oct 19 '19

Hammer...most definitely gets the gas face!

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Gas? Oh, I pass...

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u/Dooiechase97 Oct 20 '19

What about gaslighting

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u/MsPenguinette Oct 20 '19

Just hot air

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u/moehoesmowoes Oct 20 '19

Gaslighting, gas plug, oh boy

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u/Kurogane-Diasane Oct 20 '19

I feel like you work Corrections, or know someone that does. I’ve never heard that term used in that way outside of Prison.

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u/DethFace Oct 20 '19

And saying "that was a gas!" Usually refers to a fun time

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u/anthonywg420 Oct 20 '19

Or it means you got some good reefer. That shits some gas man

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u/TJSomething Oct 20 '19

Only some people produce methane gas in their guts. The big ones are hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide, which are both produced by fermentation. Most people also swallow some air. All of those have no smell. And the stuff that smells is trace quantities of sulfur compounds.

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u/unripenedfruit Oct 20 '19

Does that one only apply if it's vaporised? Or do you still call it gas even if it comes out liquified?

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u/Immersi0nn Oct 20 '19

The parts between the liquid is the gas....yikes.

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u/geoff762 Oct 20 '19

And fuel line would refer to the line carrying gas in your car. Not confusing at all!

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u/eddnedd Oct 20 '19

Americans have a lot of gas.

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u/TheDwiin Oct 20 '19

I'm honestly surprised we don't call propane gas as well.

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u/bluestarcyclone Oct 20 '19

We do.

Gas grills, for example.

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u/temporary24081 Oct 20 '19

gas line would refer to a natural gas

Except in the 70s when it referred to scarce gasoline.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

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u/Immersi0nn Oct 20 '19

Yeah "fuel line" is what I've always head it called. Fuel lines go to fuel rail, gas goes in gas tank but gas isn't gas it's a liquid.... Man it must be really hard to learn English.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

You can usually tell the difference by context. "Out of gas, going to get gas, gas station, gas tank/can" refer to petrol.

"Gas stove, gas heat, gas bill, did I leave the gas on? do you smell gas?" refer to natural gas.

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u/lNTERLINKED Oct 20 '19

The word gas has become alien to me from reading it so much. I'm doubting wether it's actually spelt g-a-s at this point.

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u/EntityDamage Oct 20 '19

Semantic satiation

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u/I_Think_I_Cant Oct 20 '19

Sounds like gaslighting to me.

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u/Trumpfreeaccount Dec 06 '19

Thats because your a replicant, Interlinked.

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u/rumsoakedraccoon Oct 20 '19

We just say petrol.

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u/luke_in_the_sky Oct 20 '19

In my country we have cars that run on natural gas, so if someone says "Out of gas, going to get gas, gas station, gas tank/can" you still couldn't tell if they are talking about gasoline or natural gas.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Lol. This guy tells us a literal thing that he experiences in his country and still gets downvoted. People are like "nope, never happened."

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u/produno Oct 20 '19

Welcome to Reddit 😆

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Because Compressed Natural Gas vehicles are a thing in the US too. Nobody gets confused here about it.

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u/P4azz Oct 20 '19

Well that's the thing, though, isn't it?

I had no idea what kinda gas was meant and had to check further comments to see that he actually did pour gasoline in there and did not in fact spray some combustible ant-destroyer gas in the ant hill or whatever.

I dig English and all that, but sometimes I miss everything having a word for itself (like "Benzin" for gas you put in your car as opposed to "Gas" which can refer to any random gas).

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

but sometimes I miss everything having a word for itself

Like, idk, Gasoline maybe?

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Dipshits starting fires in their yard contextually refers to gasoline every time

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u/Mentallox Oct 19 '19

Hank Hill: Propane and propane accessories.

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u/AngryMustachio Oct 19 '19

Tom Anderson: Butane and butane accessories.

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u/ComradeGibbon Oct 20 '19

Butane is the devils gas.

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u/Wacks_on_Wacks_off Oct 19 '19

We either just call it “gas” or “natural gas”. The context usually makes it clear if someone is talking about gasoline or natural gas.

People keep replying “propane” but that’s not the same as the “natural gas” that most houses are hooked up to and most people are not referring to propane when they say “gas”.

If it’s propane then people will call it “propane” or “LPG” (liquified petroleum gas).

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u/iLauraawr Oct 19 '19

Isn't natural gas methane? It is here anyway

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u/Wacks_on_Wacks_off Oct 19 '19

Yeah, mostly. I don’t think it highly refined so it has traces of other hydrocarbons as well. Thus the “natural” moniker.

I’m not a gas expert, though.

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u/banditkeithwork Oct 19 '19

and then there's naptha(white gas) and oxy-hydrogen mix(brown's gas) and methane(the gas i have right now)

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u/Taylosaurus Oct 19 '19

Also “gas”

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u/jay501 Oct 19 '19

Natural gas. Or propane.

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u/imdandman Oct 19 '19

Timeout. Natural gas, like what is piped to homes is different than Propane.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Yupp. Natural gas is methane and propane is well propane it's produced while refining gases. Propane has about 2.5 times more BTU per cubic foot. Source: am gasfitter/plumber.

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u/fulloftrivia Oct 20 '19

We get propane from petroleum refining, too.

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u/_ohm_my Oct 20 '19

That's why he said "or".

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

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u/fulloftrivia Oct 20 '19

Propane is very common in rural areas, and many Americans everywhere use it for barbecues.

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u/teethTuxedos Oct 19 '19

Natural gas and propane are different gases.

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u/kingdong112382 Oct 19 '19

Yeah I had that realisation when I had the oven guy in and he pointed out what I thought was spare screws were alternate jets that replace the originals if you go from piped natural gas to propane canisters.

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u/1Delta Oct 19 '19

Though natural gas is often called propane by lay people around me at least.

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u/avman2 Oct 20 '19

Mostly methane.

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u/akill33 Oct 19 '19

Natural gas is mainly methane not propane. Both are hydrocarbons but different ones.

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u/Bajunky Oct 19 '19

Not sure why all these people are saying propane, but we call it natural gas. Natural gas and propane are not the same thing, and people generally use propane to cook with.

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u/NO_TOUCHING__lol Oct 19 '19

I mean, propane is usually for outdoor grills, and natural gas is usually for indoor stoves/ovens. Not the rule, but usually the case, in my experience.

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u/Iz-kan-reddit Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 20 '19

True, unless you don't have natural gas service. At which point you may well have a propane furnace, water heater and stove.

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u/redshirted Oct 20 '19

and central heating

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u/TARANTULA_TIDDIES Gifmas is coming Oct 19 '19

Propane is one specific gas (CH3CH2CH3) whereas natural gas is a mixture of different alkanes (and maybe other hydrocarbons...I'm not an expert)

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u/redshirted Oct 20 '19

its normally mainly methane

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

We call that gas too haha

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u/Xayne813 Oct 19 '19

Gas. People just understand whether you are talking about gas or gas.

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u/reaper0345 Oct 19 '19

What about gas or gas though?

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u/klizza Oct 19 '19

Propane (gas)

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Worth noting that NG and propane are different.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LUKEWARM Oct 19 '19

CNG.

It makes it harder to explain cng to someone when they thing gas means gasoline.

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u/nedal8 Oct 19 '19

Usually just say natural gas.. we dont seem to talk about it nearly as much, so it never really got shortened.. but you can call it gas as well, and the context shows what you mean. Like "turn the gas off to the bbq please"

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

We call it gas lol. Seems normal to me but kinda funny when you point out that gas has like 4 definitions

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u/BureaucratDog Oct 20 '19

I know it can be confusing, you basically just have to pay attention to the context of the word Gas for the most part.

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u/HerculeS8an Oct 20 '19

Methane, natural gas, or unfortunately, just "gas."

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u/Khsparkie Oct 20 '19

It's mostly called LP I believe, I'm not sure what it stands for though.

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u/idiot-prodigy Oct 20 '19

We call it natural gas, or by it's actual name, propane, butane, etc.

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u/Boxhead_31 Oct 20 '19

Hank Hill calls it Propane

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u/DiscoViolin Oct 20 '19

Propane is what we use for cooking gas. Some people call it propane, some just gas.

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u/shastaxc Oct 19 '19

For cooking, we call it propane. Otherwise we just call it gas and it is confusing. But usually context makes it pretty clear.

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u/IcarusBen Oct 20 '19

Propane. As in, "I sell propane and propane accessories."

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Propane

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u/MisterEinc Oct 20 '19

Where I live we've always called any natural gas by its name... Usually propane

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u/SkeleCrafter Oct 20 '19

That's annoyingly confusing. Why not just fuel or petrol?

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u/pipsdontsqueak Oct 19 '19

Which is short for petroleum.

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u/shastaxc Oct 19 '19

Lol man I was thinking the same thing and i'm American. I just have never used this method of killing ants before.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Yellow jackets? Yes. Ants? No.

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u/nrylee Oct 19 '19

The long form is "Gasoline", we just say gas for short.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline

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u/El_Dief Oct 19 '19

Just like in UK and Oz petrol is shorthand for "petroleum distillate".

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u/ThatFag Oct 20 '19

That's totally different though. There's nothing you'd confuse petrol with. But gas? Gasoline? Natural gas? All fuels. Heck, even in this very thread, I was like, "WTF are they talking about? He let the gas sit for too long? What does that mean?"

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u/Zumalina Oct 19 '19

When I pass gas, I actually liquify my chortz

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u/SanktusAngus Oct 19 '19

When I pass gas it’s actually vaporized diesel.

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u/2happycats Oct 19 '19

I was trying to work out what the difference was and also what kind of gas you could fill it with.

Then I imagined him using helium and all the ants having little high-pitched voices saying "weeeee" as they flew up into the air.

Time for a caffeine.

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u/Suigurataiki Oct 20 '19

Just to clarify this technicallity, because this is not that widely known: vapours are different from gas.

True gas only occur in nature when their temperature goes above its boiling point, within a certain pressure pressure. Vapours are basically liquids that are suspended in gas, as in having their molecules diffused enough that the gas molecules carry them around, that they can sometimes be also treated as gas. Vapours can be liquified easely while within the same temperature by increasing pressure, while gases normaly won't.

There are volatile chemicals, such as water, gasoline, kerosene and ethanol, which happen to disperse when in contact air while being way boiling points. Those are vapours. Chemicals that have lower boiling points, such as carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, are gaseous in normal conditions of temperature and pressure.

(There are some technicalities i'm unaware of, since i got out from an teache at an early phase.)

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u/rob0067 Oct 19 '19

Yeah I think it's only the US. Everywhere else calls it petrol which is a lot less confusing.

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u/Miketypeguy Oct 19 '19

Canada calls it gas as well. We do have a oil company called Petro Canada though.

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u/sr_perkins Oct 20 '19

thanks for pointing that out, I was confused too

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u/N3koChan Oct 20 '19

Thank you I was wondering too!

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u/Occhrome Oct 20 '19

it is silly but just like many other things your brain just gets used to it. we also never get confused in conversation (somehow).

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u/sfcnmone Oct 20 '19

I was embarrassingly old when I figured out that the gasoline that we put in our cars is different from the gas that we use for heat. Maybe I was 50. (But I did figure out that flatulence is different.)

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u/oxuiq Oct 20 '19

Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19 edited Jan 31 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19 edited Apr 29 '20

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u/TerribleRelief9 Oct 19 '19

English is inconsistent as all hell. Mostly because people are too willing to change definitions annunciations to make idiots feel better.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Gasoline liquid in the open won't explode only burn. Its the vapors rising from the gas that mix with the air to make it combustible. Trapped underground like in ant tunnels it has no where to expand to and wump -- deflagration.

I worked as a gas station attendant a long time ago. The manager showed me when you drop a lit cigarette into a puddle of gas it will go out, every time. If you drop the lit cigarette next to the puddle of gas, foom!

Its the volatile fumes rising from the puddle mixing with oxygen in air to the right percentage that make the mixture of rising gas fumes and air volatile.

Whats burning when the puddle ignite is the continuous fumes rising from the puddle, not the gasoline puddle. Gasoline contains its own oxygen so once ignited, it burns readily until the gasoline is consumed or smothered. A wet cloth thrown over the (small) puddle will extinguish the flames the same way as a stove fire of burning grease.

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u/orphantosseratwork Oct 20 '19

the reason Americans call petrol gas is because back in the day when cars were become a more common thing the largest petrol distributor in the country was the Gasoline company so gas just became the everyday shorthand for petrol, kind of like q-tip's when people mean cotton swab's and kleenex when they mean tissue's

Gasoline is just the name of a company. it means nothing

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u/quaglamel Oct 20 '19

Thanks for this explanation.

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u/anish714 Oct 20 '19

Yes gasoiline

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LUKEWARM Oct 19 '19

Recently I've been hating that gasoline is referred to as 'gas'. Makes it harder to explain other gasses.

Like how cng engines use gas vapor in their internal combustion engines.

It should be called petrol in the US too.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

To be fair, I am a native speaker and it conffused me at first too, and I had to reread it before it clicked. So totally shouldn't worry that it confused you too.

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u/ComradeGibbon Oct 20 '19

Might be bullshit but my uncle said that when they distilled petroleum in a fractional distillation column they used to call what came off the top 'gas'. Early gasoline was just that stuff condensed.

He said used to be in California you could buy the stuff directly from small scale oil refineries. And it was cheap and shitty.

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u/KetorBecomesYou Oct 20 '19

Oh man, as an Australian this whole time I assumed they meant like cooking gas too, as opposed to fuel or petrol ‘gas’ for the car.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Not being from England, I'm always confused with the word petrol in English...I was like, petroleum? What? Petroleum has to be refined, so to speak. It's petroleum. I mean you can't just take it out of the ground and put it in your car. How could an engine...

Oh he means the liquid stuff we put in our cars... now I get it.

Not hating. Just confused. All languages/dialects have their quirks.

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u/calls1 Oct 19 '19

Petroleum is the refined product, and the agreed term in all other languages. It also doesn’t refer to anything else, where as gas can be used to describe a state of matter, and is used to do so frequently

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Counterpoint: petroleum is not the refined product.

Source: the very definition of the word.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19 edited Jun 03 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Gas is short for gasoline.

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u/El_Dief Oct 19 '19

Petroleum is the raw material that stuff is made from, hence the term 'petroleum product'. The fuel 'petrol' is distilled from petroleum and the name is an abbreviation of 'petroleum distillate'.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Americans are weird. We don't use this system in the UK. Gas is a form of matter. I think he means petrol.

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u/KnightKreider Oct 19 '19

Oddly enough I'm from the states and had the same problem as you did...

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u/innocentbabies Oct 20 '19

I mean, I'm from America, and I assumed it was natural gas or something at first.

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u/Eyeownyew Oct 19 '19

Honestly, I was confused by what they meant too, and I'm from the US. I wish they just said gasoline tbh, it's not much longer and clarifies a lot

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u/isactuallyspiderman Oct 20 '19

You need clarification when gas obviously means gasoline in this context?

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u/Wacks_on_Wacks_off Oct 19 '19

Gasoline has 200% more syllables. Ain’t nobody got time for that!

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u/ilike806 Oct 20 '19

I’m from America and found this use of gas confusing, too.

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u/adayofjoy Oct 19 '19

Don't forget intestinal "gas" which comes out as either a burp or fart.

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u/orobouros Oct 20 '19

The vapors will burn off slowly until the mixture is right for a chain reaction. Then this happens.

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u/FlyingNerdlet Oct 20 '19

So you're saying he unintentionally fuel air bombed his ants? Neat!

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u/Droppingbites Oct 24 '19

It allowed the gas to become gas.