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Why do gasoline pumps display labels warning against smoking while pumping gas?
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∙ 15y ago
Gasoline is flammable and the gasoline fumes are highly explosives. For fire you need three things Fuel, Heat and Oxygen. The gasoline would be the Fuel, there is Oxygen in the air and a cigarette would supply the Heat.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 9y agoBecause petrol vapors are combustible, so smoking a cigarette near a pump could (and has) cause a fire
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