Can You Light DIESEL With A Match?! | Ex-Machinery
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- As we all know, diesel is an easily combustible fluid that should be treated with caution. Smoking at gas stations for example, is prohibited.
But.. is Diesel as flammable as Gasoline? What are the differences? Why is it so hard to light Diesel with a match? Our video shows that it is possible to light diesel with a match, however it takes far longer to ignite as opposed to Gasoline. This is because diesel has a far higher ignition temperature.
Also, why is this man smoking at the gas station talking about diesel not being flammable?
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I remember our chemistry teacher telling us if you dropped a lit match onto a saucer of cold diesel it would probably extinguish the match. He was right.
The same is true of petrol. It's the vapour that burns - not the liquid.
@@grumpyoldman1618 But then the vapor would ignite before the match is extinguished. So, it's not exactly true for petrol.
@@emreevo8 It's true for cold petrol. I've done it.
I use diesel to get my wood-stove burning. I just pour it over the wood. It's a lot safer than gasoline, no big explosion.
@@WhattAreYouSaying Yep. That works
Awesome. Now I can smoke at the diesel pump while filling up
All ways do your research
It's explode very bad
Some truckers leave their trucks running while fuelling up, keeps engine up to temp and there's no danger.
petrol pump is always nearby
You can smoke at any gasoline pump and not blow up... I cigarette WILL not ignite gasoline...
God damn those are some good matches! My matches are fully burned within 10 seconds
@MegaMrblackguy LMFAO
That's is matches for cigare
@MegaMrblackguy, Yikes... 😬
@MegaMrblackguy Dude, wtf man.
@MegaMrblackguy I didn't say i wanted her but ok. You do you bro. Get out of the internet sometimes. You need a girlfriend man.
Great demo! Showed me exactly what I needed to know. Props to you for being like, "This counter top looks like a great place to demonstrate burning fuel." Kitchen probably smelled like gasoline for weeks. 😆
This was really cool definitely learned something new!
Wife comes home and says, “honey, did you make dinner again?”
I worked with a guy named Diesel Davis, the reason for his nick name, he bought a brand new trailer and put it in his Girlfriends property, when they broke up the cops wouldn't let him move his trailer so he unsuccessfully tried to burn it with Diesel🤣🤣🤣
I literally start hundreds of camp fires and fires in my stove every year with either straight diesel fuel (or a mix of diesel fuel and motor oil) and a Bic lighter every year.
I've never had an issue, even with wood that's been sitting out in the rain for extended periods of time (days or weeks)
So, are you suggesting to me that whenever I want to start my BBQ that I should first put some diesel fuel into my kitchen oven so that the diesel hits the 55-Celsius mark?
Exactly, I just didn't know how to say it,
@@gidovantienhoven6424 youre arguably playing with fire by telling someone this (excuse the pun)
humans are incredibly efficient at NOT using common sense or fact checking
This man deserves more subscribers :D
you mean more fans of clickbait vids right? XD
Do your parents know you're lighting containers of gasoline on fire in their newly renovated kitchen counters?
if that's granite top and the plates under them are porcelain, doesn't matter in the slightest.
local terrified man also terrified of the notion that others may not be terrified of everything around them
Never understood flash point until now, thanks!
This match demo is the auto ignition point, not the flash point.
And then you have the church bus who catch fire with sparkle in the walking dead 😂
"you been burning petrol in the kitchen again?!"
That was pretty awesome thanks for sharing
Anyone else come here after seeing that Reddit post about the old man smoking while pumping diesel?
I had to know
Aye
Exactly xD
damn..., so I wasn't the only one... and we weren't that far apart either.
Could you post the link? I notice that we have a lot of new viewers the last week
1:01 ah but notice the match flaming up, as it has soaked some of the diesel 😉
I only use diesel to start fires. It burns mellow and slow and steady and works every time. Sometimes it's a pain to get started, but once it catches you get get drift wood that's been sitting on a gravel bar getting rained on for weeks to burn into a reasonable camp fire for cooking and drying off.
Which apparatus us used for testing the flash point of gasoline
Where can I buy those matches? I'm trying to save on heat this winter
I can only imagine the smell doing that inside 😮
You did this experiment in your kitchen?! Does your wife know? Seriously, diesel is very safe, far safer than gas, you can drop a lit match into a mucket of diesel and the match will go out, don't try that with gas, however this is a little misleading, you can soak paper or wood with diesel, and light it and it will burn very easily. I use this for starting fires in my fire pit regularly. So diesel on its own won't ignite, but it will burn when held in suspension by an absorbent material sort of like the wood match stick.
Diesel is NOT very safe. IEC 60079 Series
Beg to differ, but it depends on your definition of "very". With a comparatively high flash point of about 125F, it's much safer than gasoline, whose flash point is -45F, further evidenced by the fact that there are no CFR guidelines/laws related to fuel, Ignition protection, electricity or ventilation for diesel powered recreationally vessels under 65 feet, because unlike gasoline vessels they do not blow up if there is a fuel leak and an ignition source.
@@SDMarineConsulting
We are referring to non-vehicle applications.
Petrol, Diesel, CNG, LPG are all flammable materials.
And yes, a cigarette can ignite Petrol.
"Mom, what's that smell?"
"Daddy's making TH-cam videos again."
Thank you. Can you do another where you show how to tell diesel fuel that is still good vs one that has aged 1 year in a can? Thanks
What I didnt know is that diesel engines use compression to fire up the fuel. There are no spark plugs in diesel engines. Mind blown.
Yeah, I also think that might be the reason why it can't ignite instantly with fire.
Same thing can happen with gasoline.
It is called knocking when that happens inside an engine.
Diesel just needs a much higher pressure for it.
Making it much more controllable and therefor much more suitable for compression ignition engines.
@@MegaBanne Same thing can happen with air too. I have a little compression contraption for starting fires. Just compresses air and if you put a little wad of wood shavings or cotton in the thing you have made fire.
@@Esuper1 yep, it can happen with air. I was breathing the other day and I heard a knock in my lungs 😳
There are igniters in diesel engine
he attac
he prottec
but most importantly:
gasoline burns als een gek
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@@gidovantienhoven6424 I'd like to work with you, have your people call my people, we'll do lunch
do i need diesel for molokov cocktail?
This is why I never shut my diesel off when refueling but some people freak out b/c they don’t know any better.
Until a leaking injector or something on the high pressure side of the pump sprays diesel mist into a hot engine bay... Guess what. It's now at or above its flashpoint or autoignition temperature. Then a fuel fire at a fuel station. Just shut it off. Idling a diesel isn't good for them anyway
I never shut mine off at the pump, no starter, must roll start it, which luckily is very easy, but gas stations are pretty flat, its kind of unpractical to have to push it, get in and start all by yourself, even if there is a risk in not shutting it off i would argue its more dangerous for me to push my car into motion with noone driving
@@ilovesheen7446 your car doesnt have a starter ? who rolls starts his daily driver ahahahah
@@ilovesheen7446 Women must love having to push start your truck.
The flash point of petrol, also known as gasoline, typically ranges from -45°C to -50°C (-49°F to -58°F). .....?
But in your video it was written -23°C..
Can anybody please explain !
I poured petrol onto scrub, branches and weeds to get a bonfire going - the petrol formed a gas cloud that exploded when the match got near.
A bit too exciting. Don't do this at home kids!
Google says a match tip is 600-800c, that still seems high, perhaps the nano second the red tip, phosporus magnesium or? goes off, but steady constant heat ??? i dunno, gr8 demo either way, diesel is pretty safe overall, WVO bio diesel is my fav... smells like BBQ!
*Ten Years Later*
Doctor: You have lung cancer =_=
Smells here like those chemicals i put in to make biodiesel KOH. 0 smoke half the smell of biodiessel i cant smell the fries or the fish.
i would not have done that inside my home. great demonstration though.
Volkswagen working on their future TDi Jettas and cars:
*VW employee sees this video, shows it to the president of VW*
President of VW: "SCHREIB DAS AUF! SCHREIB DAS AUF!" (translated to English: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!")
Just have to put a potato in the exhaust, and the tank wont be driving anymore 🤣👌🏻
Song?
@0:34 isnt the flash point of gasoline 43C? Video says 23C.
Потрясающе. Теперь я могу курить у дизельного насоса во время заправки
ignite two different kinds of fuel with different shape and thickness,what did you observe
"Honey, what happened to my dishes?"
I can't get a candle to light diesel that easily.
Nice!
dont think i would have done that in the house
I do not recommend it. No worries though, there were no kitchens harmed in the making of this video
@@gidovantienhoven6424 I will harm your kitchen
Thank you for the experiment. Now I know what to buy to ignite shit. 😊
Gracias
And this was why terminator 2 was impossible when the tow truck blew up....
Bei mehr Diesel, tieferes Gefäß, könnte man das Streichholz sogar darin löschen.
With more diesel, a deeper container, you could even extinguish the match in it.
It's looking like the fire at Luton airport carpark was defo an EV and not a diesel car 😂😂
Airport fire ???
Thats why diesel is best advantahes over gasoline..you can store diesel in cans and go to any hillside areas ..you can stire diesel in your home nad even some diesel cars can be run on home ptoduced bio diesel.lot of torque..lot safer in case of collision accidents or even in the riots some one damages your car...you can put your car in water no worried.diesel is great choice
Hold ma beer
Is this why you used diesel fuel for torches instead of gasoline?
Yeah. Use gasoline and it will eventually explode
@@jetstream454 I mean that's one thing, but gasoline also burns too damn quickly, while diesel burns at a longer period.
But how about diesel vapor?
@@alfianfahmi5430 That too I suppose. The combustibility of gasoline being the largest of course
Also, it's not the liquid gasoline itself that's igniting but the vapors. If it didn't vaporize it wouldn't ignite.
I want the name of the beat to this video!
I can imagine situations where that "delay in ignition" can cause an equal amount of problems. So I disagree with the statement "one is Less dangerous than the other" or "one is More dangerous than the other"
Even international transport describes diesel as not that dangerous, meanwhile gasoline is. Just check the difference between UN1202 and UN1203, 02 diesel-03 gasoline.
@@jessenl360 Well you made a video about it suggesting you did some degree of research or maybe you have experience from employment. Whatever the case maybe I know Im no chemist. It just seems a bad idea for any residential or non commercial purposes.
The reason for my curiosity is my Dad likes to use diesel to start fires(tree trimmings, bonfires). And well... it comes from the same damn pump as gasoline so. Connect the fucking dots man!
Also don't forget that tanks running on gasoline was much more prone to burning.
@@jessenl360 Diesel, not dangerous?
Hmm you may wish to actually consult IEC 60079 Series standards ..... it is a FLAMMABLE substance.
@@lgg2304
That is like saying that paraffin is as dangerous as gasoline.
Since there is danger in the delayed ignition.
Diesel does not just have a delay in lighting it on fire.
It is not a ticking time bomb.
It is just much harder to set on fire and when it actually sets on fire it burns with much less intensity.
Did your fire alarm not go off?
Just what I wanted to know.
See that black smoke coming off the gasoline fire. That’s enough for your insurance company to cancel your insurance.
Never do this shit indoors.
What excites is that the matchstick still burns when kept in the diesel. So it's still a danger.
Lol what? How stupid are you?
lights gasoline in his kitchen !
fun fact: the m1 abrams uses diesel as a liquid armor against explosive munitions
I thought jp 8 was a kerosene based fuel
So does that mean I can store emergency diesel in my vehicle?
this man now has exhaust poisoning
So how come a derailed tanker train carrying diesel near Llanelli caught fire with a massive flame? What would have heated the diesel?
I'm not an expert but probably the gas that formes in the enclosed tank. i.e When a tank is half full the other half fills with highly flammable gas from the fuel and that's a very big problem.
@gman57op anti-mason As far as I can find out the train was hauling exclusively DIESEL Oil from the Milford Haven refinery. As Sybil said to Basil "There is no need for rudeness". the wrong side of the bed this morning was it?
Maybe the brakes of the rail car where glowing hot
There are 13 different potential sources of ignition ... flames are not just one of them.
Mechanically generated sparks for example
It's the vapour that burns - not the liquid. Heat the diesel and the vapour boils off. If you have an accident and there is a fine spray of diesel, that creates a vapour, and that will light. Once its lit it heats the rest of the diesel up so it burns.
why would you do this indoors?
Thats why disel engines are also called compression ignition engine
And need glow plugs on those cold mornings to help get started!
i made a gasoline vapour system, wow 200 km my gas guage still on full
Also my Chemistry Teacher sent me here pahaha
same lol
Is unleaded Fuel gasoline or diesel?
Petrol
It's what you'd call regular gasoline in America.
It's definity unleaded, since leaded fuel is banned.
@@regularuser He didn’t ask if something is leaded or unleaded. He asked whether unleaded is gasoline or diesel. Gasoline / petrol is the answer.
1000°c match tip? Shouldn't that get the diesel way over 55° like stupid fast?
Not when the thermal mass of the diesel mitigates the 1000C match tip. Essentially all of the heat is transferred away via conduction before the diesel reaches temp.
What's the difference between flash point and ignition temperature?
Flash point is the temp needed for the liquid to vaporize and hence be a source of fire.
Ignition temp or auto ignition temp is the temp the substance will ignite itself.
@@coreywyatt2112 flashpoint is the ignition temperature. Boiling point is where liquid becomes gas.
@@deanbennett8830 Respectfully, you are wrong.
Flash point is the temperature needed for a volatile substance to evaporate off enough to be a source of ignition. It is not the ignition temperature. example. The flash point for gasoline is -40F. If gasoline ignited at -40F, you would have a lot of issues trying to pump your gas while it's on fire.
Most substances form what's called a vapor liquid equilibrium. Depending on temperature, pressure, other constituents in the gaseous phase, a substance will evaporate off some portion until there is equilibrium with the system. Hence why if you set a glass of water out, over a couple weeks it will slowly evaporate. It's not boiling.
Boiling point is the temperature which the vapor pressure equals atmospheric pressure.
If there was no such thing as vapor equilibrium say with water. Well, life would cease to exist.
@@The-Wandering_Cynic atleast he isn't a dumbass like you.
Dude really did this in his kitchen and not outside.
diesel is internet explorer of fuels..
Guess you arent old enough to use dial-up as an analogy.
@@alexanderrosales7675 That was the golden times btw, when there were no much of distractions today's world has
Why you always want a diesel engine in your boat.
and who is going to paint the ceiling?
Guess that's why there's no spark plugs in a diesel engine.
That is why diesel engines has a very high compression ratio than petrol engines
Gas takes 250 psi to burn but diesel takes 1000psi to burn
AND THATS THE REASON WHY VITARA BREZZA HAS MILEAGE..😂😂
No one asked.
I thought the flash point of Gasoline was closer to minus 40 degrees C
I believe that would be Fahrenheit
@ElBurroLolo - 43 deg C = -45 deg F so either way -23 deg C is clearly not correct
what a great idea to do that in your house.
You really lit a plate of gasoline in your kitchen???
Does diesel permanently replacing Gasoline in the Future? Having a Diesel-powered Vehicles means less Danger than Gas.
1:32 - "Lightning diesel"?
the tip of the match is not near a 1000 degrees
1:20
I don't know maybe do it outside next time?
Do you know who has the fastest combustion? Diesel or Gasoline?
Then why diesel inside the engine burn faster??
"Lightning diesel"
OK, great educational video but please change the background music. It's horrible & annoying.
I use diesel to get my wood-stove burning. I just pour it over the wood. It's a lot safer than gasoline.
If that is true then why don’t we use diesel for all vehicles. Especially when it last longer and goes 30% farther then unleaded gas?
Gas company giants would never let that happen. With 80% or more of the cars on road being gas, imagine the money they bring in.
Because diesel is being monopolized by our military and 98% of all military vehicles run on diesel fuel.
Diesel, for years, was a very dirty fuel. The exhaust stank pretty badly, polluted badly, and the cars fitted with it were slow and noisy. They improved it though, and it wasn't so long ago that there was a big push in Europe to get people into diesel cars, which were said to be better for the environment, more fuel efficient, and now just as quick as petrol-driven cars. Over half of new sales were diesel cars. It was then found that even the newer diesel cars emitted dangerous pollutants (different ones) and diesels are being phased out again.
@@RevStickleback they don't emit different pollutants nogga, they release more soot. Gasoline engines also emit soot.
Mainly because your average motorist is far too stupid to understand proper care of diesel motors.
So why aren't we all using diesel instead of gasoline/petrol ?
Diesel may be harder to light but it burns slower than gas
not 'but' but 'AND'
@@fsinjin60 in this case it's but what are you on?
@@Bmwmpowers58 high on G-d just like you, bot. 6 months in and this is what you post?
@@fsinjin60 What does it matter if 6 months or one year. Don't you stand for what you said or maybe you upped a grade? If you are high on God be a man of your words
@@Bmwmpowers58 easy tiger. You are using a lot of words for nothing.
Why diesel dount starts burn?
This is why , diesel needs compression and very hot fire
That's why you should not fill your car with diesel only unleaded fuel is permitted because with unleaded the car can drive miles and miles far and diesel can make the car fail to drive
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But werench u uhfreiyd uv the china or ceramik plate bursting into fragmentz from the heeet uv the fire🔥 and flying into yur face God forbid؟?!
One thing i will never understand is how can something that burns like this able to move a heavy truck,can someone explain!😢
Short story: diesel needs more compression (and heat?) to be converted into energy = more torque
Diesel engines don't use spark plugs to ignite the fuel/air mixture the way a petrol engine does. Instead, a diesel engine uses the upward motion of the piston to compress the mixture in the cylinder at which point it auto ignites.
I’m surprised he lit that up in his home. Or maybe he doesn’t have any smoke detectors.
perhaps he is from Europe, many if not most households here have no smoke detectors or fire alarms.
@@martinnimcevic565 In Belgium it’s compulsory to have a smoke alarm on every level in your house since this year.. but i guess not many people have done that indeed. I had them already before it became compulsory. A small cost which can save everything you own. But for such experiment you can just temporarily disable or remove the alarm from the room. ..or do the experiment outside lol 😜
So basically a match in a tank of diesel won't cause any explosion because the heat from the match would easily be distributed in the surrounding liquid before it can reach upto 55 degrees and the match would extinguish much before than so basically every movie scene where the actor dumps a burning cloth or lighter into a disel tank of a truck and it explodes is bullsh**
NO ... NO ... dont do that
We actually tried putting a matchstick into a puddle of diesel and it did not burn
Why is done inside a kitchen?
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Diesel need compression 🔥
Not necessarily, but compression makes reaching that flashpoint really easy, so I guess in engines, yes, it 'needs' compression
A diesel motor does, but the reason it's not burning is because it's it's puddle. If you pour some on wood then try to light a wet spot (not a puddle) you will have a nice fire going in no time.
The nice part about using diesel vs gas is you don't risk it flashing up in your face, it just burns steady and controlled (unless you pour it on a fire that's already burning well)
I can tell you that it doesn't. I tried holding a butane torch flame to a small puddle of diesel and it wouldn't catch fire.
A puddle might not catch, but pour some on a stack of wood and you will have zero issues getting it going with a Bic lighter.
And did measure the temperature of the puddle? When did it get to 55C?