"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
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So here's the kicker, I recall reading that you could make a torch out of
a T-Shirt on a stick, light it, dunk it in a bucket of JP-12 and the
JP-12 would do nothing but extinguish your torch...JP-12 was anything BUT
explosive and it required immense pressures to get it to ignite

Regular gasoline is basically the same. The main difference would be
vapor pressure; there's a decent amount of gasoline vapor anywhere there's
liquid gasoline. But the liquid gasoline itself is very resistant to
ignition (ditto other fuels).

With decent ventilation, you could put out a match by throwing it into a
bucket of gasoline.

In other words, your recollection is correct, but it's not really the
mind-blowing news flash one might think it is.

Pete


Oh well,

I remember it as a "NO SH*T!??!" moment at the time. :O)

Lots of things in life are probably not as big a deal as one remembers them
at the time.

Regards,

Jay B