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Fireball
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If you fully squeezed on a petrol pump of unleaded, and lit it, how big would the fireball be?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.petrol only really explodes when well mixed with air. When it comes out of a pump it isnt mixed, so if you lit it you would probably get a flamethrower like effect. There would be enough spilled fume to seriously burn the holder, but the true explosion would only follow when enough petrol vapour had accumulated unburnt and mixed with air. It does remain a silly thing to do though.