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up guys welcome back for another epic
day of experimenting I brought you
outside today where I’ve got a 6 gallon
gasoline fuel can as well as an electric
hot plate kind of seems a little bit
random but it’ll make sense in just a
minute
now the request for our experiment today
came out of the comments for a mix
manhua 3ad who got 235 thumbs ups for
asking the question what happens when
you boil gasoline now let’s start off
this project today by taking just a
second to talk about what gasoline
actually is now you may remember the
story that back when I was 21 years old
I used to work on the oil rigs drilling
holes into the ground and extracting
crude oil where it could be shipped off
and refined into products like gasoline
now if you’ve ever pulled up to the gas
station you probably noticed different
octane ratings for the fuel you got
regular and you’ve got premium and what
those numbers are telling you is how
much compression that liquid can take
before self-igniting now if you ever
want to try storing gasoline it’s
important that you use containers that
comply with the regulations of the EPA
gasoline is a very volatile liquid and
depending on the temperature and
pressure it may cause the container you
have it stored into a road or explode
even the six gallon tainer that is
compliant with the epa you can see how
much pressure is built up inside this
thing is bulging and ready to burst
there’s a lot of pressure sitting in
there right now so the purpose of
today’s experiment is to see what will
happen if we put gasoline in an open
container on a hot plate and let it boil
will the gasoline actually boil at all
or will just vaporize into the air and
if it does start boiling will those
bubbles foam up and froth over and spill
over in the hot plate itself and is it
possible for gasoline to actually get
hot enough to self ignite we’re
answering those three questions in this
video today
[Music]
all right so quick update these nozzles
are much more trouble than they’re worth
we’re just gonna scrap them and pour
directly from the container that should
be more than enough
so here we are guys have just
transferred the gasoline from a jerrycan
into this Pyrex glass this can hold
about two cups right now I’ve got
leveled about a cup and a half now it’s
important to note that right now we’re
being very careful not to have any open
flames because obviously the vapor
that’s coming off this right now is
extremely flammable and we don’t want
this thing to ignite prematurely now
we’re using Pyrex for this first
experiment as a back-up plan I’m gonna
stick a pot down underneath it so that
way if the glass cracks we’ll be able to
contain the gasoline in the pot without
it spilling over onto the burner all
right about to turn it on the starting
temperature right now is surprisingly
only about 13.7 Celsius when I look at
the actual hot plate itself some of the
edges we’re showing 40 degrees Celsius
there’s a dramatic difference I think
that’s from keeping this in cold storage
yep that’s definitely cold so let’s turn
the heat on
let er rip and let’s see what happens it
has been about 10 minutes I just came
back to check and you can always see
some white fumes are coming off I see
little bubbles coming from the bottom of
the gasoline I don’t see it boiling yet
but when I measure the temperature it’s
showing about 58 degrees Celsius that
has warmed up quite a bit from where it
was 10 minutes ago so we let this thing
run another five to 10 minutes and we’ll
check in on them dang that’s increasing
fast so at 60 degrees Celsius I think of
this stuff explodes in our face
accidentally we’ll just remember to stop
drop and roll should solve all our
problems right look at that if you look
down here you can actually see it’s
bubbling from the bottom we did not even
make it to 5 minutes guys I just checked
in on this and it’s actually bubbling if
you look at the surface you can see
bubbles coming up to the top and
collecting measuring the temperature I’m
showing we’re at about 82 degrees
Celsius so this is actually boiling
under the boiling point of water so
gasoline will boil and Oh boil before
water does that’s interesting so now the
question is how hot can we actually get
this if we leave this on the burner
plate how hot will that liquid get
before it either burst into flames or
boils off completely gasoline is showing
over a hundred and forty five degrees
Celsius it’s like two hundred and eighty
degrees Fahrenheit now it’s really
really hot look at all the vapor that’s
coming off it’s a tremendous amount at
this point I’m thinking that whole thing
is gonna boil completely dry without
igniting at all which is kind of
surprising I mean I thought maybe it
would get hot enough to light into
flames but without an open source of
flames apparently I’d have to get quite
a bit hotter it almost looks like the
gasoline itself is getting concentrated
as well it’s not quite as clear as it
used to be it’s a lot more of a darker
yellowish orange so something in there
is obviously getting concentrated out
that’s amazing that’s almost completely
gone it’s very very hot very hot to the
touch
whew very hot to the touch I’m just
gonna let this boil down completely
because I want to see as it gets toward
the bottom is it going to accelerate and
actually burst into flames at all all
right we’re on the home stretch you can
see all the vapor coming out now this is
happening very quickly I should probably
get a reading about a hundred and eighty
degrees Celsius 370 degrees Fahrenheit
that’s pretty dang hot obviously that’s
about as hot as it can get on its own so
what if we let this boil off we let the
temperature come up even higher and then
we pour in a little bit of gasoline to
that heightened temperature already will
adjust boiler will burst into flames
that is our next experiment okay so look
at that there’s some kind of interesting
residue at the bottom there some kind of
a brownish motor oily looking stuff see
that this is actually so hot right now
I’m having trouble hanging on to it co2
fire extinguisher
I value my skin so we’re bringing out
the big guns for safety
that should be good enough for this one
we’re gonna get crazy and try something
little bit different I’m gonna pull the
pot out of the scenario and put the
pirates directly onto the burner itself
actually give it a little bit more heat
we’re just gonna give that a few more
minutes to heat up to maximum then we’re
gonna take a small cup of gasoline and
pour it directly in the center good idea
bad idea
we’re about to find out oh my gosh now
they took that pot off the temperature’s
going up dramatically 640 Fahrenheit and
the glass we’re already up to 430
that’s cool I wonder if this will work
after all putting the glass directly on
the burner is making a dramatic
difference to how much heat is actually
going into the glass
I think the pot was acting as a heat
sink and deflecting some of that off so
we’re gonna bring this thing up till
it’s about 250 degrees Celsius which is
extremely hot I think we’re gonna throw
the gasoline in before I pour this thing
I’m gonna do one final check so I’m
showing pretty close to 300 degrees
Celsius which is over 550 degrees
Fahrenheit this is absolutely ridiculous
this setup right now is actually hotter
than the inside of your oven can
actually get so if this does not ignite
without a flame I’m gonna actually feel
a lot safer about handling gasoline
moment of truth here we go now I’m just
gonna kind of stand off to the side here
in case something goes terribly wrong
I’m gonna dump it all in one go in three
two one oh and it broke the glass
that was not actually the reaction I was
expecting I was thinking maybe it would
go up in flames maybe I just sitting
there boil but it actually cracked the
Pyrex spilled out over the burner all
over the cement
no sign of flames whatsoever just a lot
of broken glass huh okay so here comes
the liquid you can see it coming down
from the top half of it goes in
container the other half kind of
splashes out on the burner and all over
the pavement
you can actually see the gasoline inside
the container like erupting shooting
back up out of the top and there goes
the side of the glass cracking obviously
some kind of an issue with thermal shock
the two extremes meeting cold gasoline
in a very hot glass container so if that
didn’t light off I don’t know what would
obviously at some point it is gonna be a
surface hot enough to ignite the
gasoline but that’s gonna be extreme
temperatures beyond anything that we can
generate using in the oven or an
electric burner and that’s good news I
do feel like we have to have some kind
of fire though so I’m going to take this
residual over here and light it off most
of its evaporated
[Music]
I guess there’s a little bit of a flame
there but it’s hard to see in the
daylight
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
we’d start off this experiment today to
see exactly what would happen if we put
gasoline on a hot burner and raise the
temperature quickly the first thing
we’ve observed is the gasoline warmed up
and began to boil but the bubbles did
not turn into a frothy foam and spill
over the edge instead they just popped
in vaporize into the air after about 15
to 20 minutes we noticed most of the
gasoline had vaporized off but the
temperature never actually rose high
enough for those vapors to self ignite
the reason is because all the energy
going to the gasoline to vaporize it
kept the liquid at a very constant
temperature somewhere around 160 degrees
Celsius when all that gas vaporized out
of the container we decided to try a
second experiment to see if we could
heat the container up even hotter and
pour the gasoline into that the question
being what a container that was twice as
hot as the boiling point of gasoline get
it to auto ignite but importing the
gasoline into the container what we
found was rather than the gas igniting
the glass container actually broke now
of course glass isn’t the best material
to use but we also saw that as the
gasoline spilled down over the extremely
hot burner no reaction happened nothing
lit on fire it just spilled out onto the
ground and began to vaporize in the
atmosphere so we grabbed a blowtorch and
tried to light off the rest based on the
results of this experiment I’m a lot
more confident working with gasoline now
now obviously if you got a surface hot
enough you could get the gasoline to
ignite back when I was playing with my
solar scorcher in concrete
I poured gasoline onto the concrete and
that was hot enough to light the
gasoline vapors off just with power of
the Sun so if concentrated sunlight will
do that I’m sure there’s a temperature
where we can get gasoline to flash into
ignition however using the kind of
equipment like ovens stoves and electric
burners that we have around the house
it’s not likely to happen and that’s
good news well there you have it guys we
have successfully answered the question
what happens when you boil gasoline and
a big thanks to you mix manhua 3ad for
putting this suggestion down in the
comments and go check your youtube inbox
because we’re sending you 25 bucks now
quick disclaimer this is not an
experiment I want you to try at home
playing with gasoline is extremely
dangerous and if it gets on your skin
you may never look the same for the rest
of your life for this experiment we had
safety protocols in place a giant carbon
dioxide fire extinguisher we were using
an electric burner and no open sources
of ignition replicating this kind of
experiment on top of an open flame like
a fire pit for example would yield much
different results that’s not something I
recommend trying at home so thanks for
joining us for this experiment guys I’ll
be looking for you the next one talk to
you that and that my friends is how you
clean gasoline off your driveway we’re
almost out of time for the streamys of
the votes are almost in so right now
jump over Twitter cast your vote TKO our
four streamys we’d love to win an award
thank you in advance because that one
vote that tips the balance into our
favor it helps us win just might be
yours
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
win a Streamy award we need you to go to
Twitter and tweet the hashtag TKO our
four streamys we need your vote it’s
very important because your vote might
be the one that tips us over and helps
us win huh that is not the scenario I
would have predicted to see hey what’s
up guys welcome back for another epic
day of experimenting I brought you
outside today where I’ve got a 6 gallon
gasoline fuel can as well as an electric
hot plate kind of seems a little bit
random but it’ll make sense in just a
minute
now the request for our experiment today
came out of the comments for a mix
manhua 3ad who got 235 thumbs ups for
asking the question what happens when
you boil gasoline now let’s start off
this project today by taking just a
second to talk about what gasoline
actually is now you may remember the
story that back when I was 21 years old
I used to work on the oil rigs drilling
holes into the ground and extracting
crude oil where it could be shipped off
and refined into products like gasoline
now if you’ve ever pulled up to the gas
station you probably noticed different
octane ratings for the fuel you got
regular and you’ve got premium and what
those numbers are telling you is how
much compression that liquid can take
before self-igniting now if you ever
want to try storing gasoline it’s
important that you use containers that
comply with the regulations of the EPA
gasoline is a very volatile liquid and
depending on the temperature and
pressure it may cause the container you
have it stored into a road or explode
even the six gallon tainer that is
compliant with the epa you can see how
much pressure is built up inside this
thing is bulging and ready to burst
there’s a lot of pressure sitting in
there right now so the purpose of
today’s experiment is to see what will
happen if we put gasoline in an open
container on a hot plate and let it boil
will the gasoline actually boil at all
or will just vaporize into the air and
if it does start boiling will those
bubbles foam up and froth over and spill
over in the hot plate itself and is it
possible for gasoline to actually get
hot enough to self ignite we’re
answering those three questions in this
video today
[Music]
all right so quick update these nozzles
are much more trouble than they’re worth
we’re just gonna scrap them and pour
directly from the container that should
be more than enough
so here we are guys have just
transferred the gasoline from a jerrycan
into this Pyrex glass this can hold
about two cups right now I’ve got
leveled about a cup and a half now it’s
important to note that right now we’re
being very careful not to have any open
flames because obviously the vapor
that’s coming off this right now is
extremely flammable and we don’t want
this thing to ignite prematurely now
we’re using Pyrex for this first
experiment as a back-up plan I’m gonna
stick a pot down underneath it so that
way if the glass cracks we’ll be able to
contain the gasoline in the pot without
it spilling over onto the burner all
right about to turn it on the starting
temperature right now is surprisingly
only about 13.7 Celsius when I look at
the actual hot plate itself some of the
edges we’re showing 40 degrees Celsius
there’s a dramatic difference I think
that’s from keeping this in cold storage
yep that’s definitely cold so let’s turn
the heat on
let er rip and let’s see what happens it
has been about 10 minutes I just came
back to check and you can always see
some white fumes are coming off I see
little bubbles coming from the bottom of
the gasoline I don’t see it boiling yet
but when I measure the temperature it’s
showing about 58 degrees Celsius that
has warmed up quite a bit from where it
was 10 minutes ago so we let this thing
run another five to 10 minutes and we’ll
check in on them dang that’s increasing
fast so at 60 degrees Celsius I think of
this stuff explodes in our face
accidentally we’ll just remember to stop
drop and roll should solve all our
problems right look at that if you look
down here you can actually see it’s
bubbling from the bottom we did not even
make it to 5 minutes guys I just checked
in on this and it’s actually bubbling if
you look at the surface you can see
bubbles coming up to the top and
collecting measuring the temperature I’m
showing we’re at about 82 degrees
Celsius so this is actually boiling
under the boiling point of water so
gasoline will boil and Oh boil before
water does that’s interesting so now the
question is how hot can we actually get
this if we leave this on the burner
plate how hot will that liquid get
before it either burst into flames or
boils off completely gasoline is showing
over a hundred and forty five degrees
Celsius it’s like two hundred and eighty
degrees Fahrenheit now it’s really
really hot look at all the vapor that’s
coming off it’s a tremendous amount at
this point I’m thinking that whole thing
is gonna boil completely dry without
igniting at all which is kind of
surprising I mean I thought maybe it
would get hot enough to light into
flames but without an open source of
flames apparently I’d have to get quite
a bit hotter it almost looks like the
gasoline itself is getting concentrated
as well it’s not quite as clear as it
used to be it’s a lot more of a darker
yellowish orange so something in there
is obviously getting concentrated out
that’s amazing that’s almost completely
gone it’s very very hot very hot to the
touch
whew very hot to the touch I’m just
gonna let this boil down completely
because I want to see as it gets toward
the bottom is it going to accelerate and
actually burst into flames at all all
right we’re on the home stretch you can
see all the vapor coming out now this is
happening very quickly I should probably
get a reading about a hundred and eighty
degrees Celsius 370 degrees Fahrenheit
that’s pretty dang hot obviously that’s
about as hot as it can get on its own so
what if we let this boil off we let the
temperature come up even higher and then
we pour in a little bit of gasoline to
that heightened temperature already will
adjust boiler will burst into flames
that is our next experiment okay so look
at that there’s some kind of interesting
residue at the bottom there some kind of
a brownish motor oily looking stuff see
that this is actually so hot right now
I’m having trouble hanging on to it co2
fire extinguisher
I value my skin so we’re bringing out
the big guns for safety
that should be good enough for this one
we’re gonna get crazy and try something
little bit different I’m gonna pull the
pot out of the scenario and put the
pirates directly onto the burner itself
actually give it a little bit more heat
we’re just gonna give that a few more
minutes to heat up to maximum then we’re
gonna take a small cup of gasoline and
pour it directly in the center good idea
bad idea
we’re about to find out oh my gosh now
they took that pot off the temperature’s
going up dramatically 640 Fahrenheit and
the glass we’re already up to 430
that’s cool I wonder if this will work
after all putting the glass directly on
the burner is making a dramatic
difference to how much heat is actually
going into the glass
I think the pot was acting as a heat
sink and deflecting some of that off so
we’re gonna bring this thing up till
it’s about 250 degrees Celsius which is
extremely hot I think we’re gonna throw
the gasoline in before I pour this thing
I’m gonna do one final check so I’m
showing pretty close to 300 degrees
Celsius which is over 550 degrees
Fahrenheit this is absolutely ridiculous
this setup right now is actually hotter
than the inside of your oven can
actually get so if this does not ignite
without a flame I’m gonna actually feel
a lot safer about handling gasoline
moment of truth here we go now I’m just
gonna kind of stand off to the side here
in case something goes terribly wrong
I’m gonna dump it all in one go in three
two one oh and it broke the glass
that was not actually the reaction I was
expecting I was thinking maybe it would
go up in flames maybe I just sitting
there boil but it actually cracked the
Pyrex spilled out over the burner all
over the cement
no sign of flames whatsoever just a lot
of broken glass huh okay so here comes
the liquid you can see it coming down
from the top half of it goes in
container the other half kind of
splashes out on the burner and all over
the pavement
you can actually see the gasoline inside
the container like erupting shooting
back up out of the top and there goes
the side of the glass cracking obviously
some kind of an issue with thermal shock
the two extremes meeting cold gasoline
in a very hot glass container so if that
didn’t light off I don’t know what would
obviously at some point it is gonna be a
surface hot enough to ignite the
gasoline but that’s gonna be extreme
temperatures beyond anything that we can
generate using in the oven or an
electric burner and that’s good news I
do feel like we have to have some kind
of fire though so I’m going to take this
residual over here and light it off most
of its evaporated
[Music]
I guess there’s a little bit of a flame
there but it’s hard to see in the
daylight
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
we’d start off this experiment today to
see exactly what would happen if we put
gasoline on a hot burner and raise the
temperature quickly the first thing
we’ve observed is the gasoline warmed up
and began to boil but the bubbles did
not turn into a frothy foam and spill
over the edge instead they just popped
in vaporize into the air after about 15
to 20 minutes we noticed most of the
gasoline had vaporized off but the
temperature never actually rose high
enough for those vapors to self ignite
the reason is because all the energy
going to the gasoline to vaporize it
kept the liquid at a very constant
temperature somewhere around 160 degrees
Celsius when all that gas vaporized out
of the container we decided to try a
second experiment to see if we could
heat the container up even hotter and
pour the gasoline into that the question
being what a container that was twice as
hot as the boiling point of gasoline get
it to auto ignite but importing the
gasoline into the container what we
found was rather than the gas igniting
the glass container actually broke now
of course glass isn’t the best material
to use but we also saw that as the
gasoline spilled down over the extremely
hot burner no reaction happened nothing
lit on fire it just spilled out onto the
ground and began to vaporize in the
atmosphere so we grabbed a blowtorch and
tried to light off the rest based on the
results of this experiment I’m a lot
more confident working with gasoline now
now obviously if you got a surface hot
enough you could get the gasoline to
ignite back when I was playing with my
solar scorcher in concrete
I poured gasoline onto the concrete and
that was hot enough to light the
gasoline vapors off just with power of
the Sun so if concentrated sunlight will
do that I’m sure there’s a temperature
where we can get gasoline to flash into
ignition however using the kind of
equipment like ovens stoves and electric
burners that we have around the house
it’s not likely to happen and that’s
good news well there you have it guys we
have successfully answered the question
what happens when you boil gasoline and
a big thanks to you mix manhua 3ad for
putting this suggestion down in the
comments and go check your youtube inbox
because we’re sending you 25 bucks now
quick disclaimer this is not an
experiment I want you to try at home
playing with gasoline is extremely
dangerous and if it gets on your skin
you may never look the same for the rest
of your life for this experiment we had
safety protocols in place a giant carbon
dioxide fire extinguisher we were using
an electric burner and no open sources
of ignition replicating this kind of
experiment on top of an open flame like
a fire pit for example would yield much
different results that’s not something I
recommend trying at home so thanks for
joining us for this experiment guys I’ll
be looking for you the next one talk to
you that and that my friends is how you
clean gasoline off your driveway we’re
almost out of time for the streamys of
the votes are almost in so right now
jump over Twitter cast your vote TKO our
four streamys we’d love to win an award
thank you in advance because that one
vote that tips the balance into our
favor it helps us win just might be
yours
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
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