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Specialty Chemistry Forums => Other Sciences Question Forum => Topic started by: newbieny on April 17, 2009, 10:12:54 AM
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ok guys here is the scenario:
a moving car at an arbitrary speed carrying a cylinder of compressed air on the trunk. A car crashes into the rear of the car causing a fire mixed in with the leaking fuel from the gas tank. The tank ruptures on impact and releases the air..will this air make the explosion bigger and the fire worse?
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I am not too sure....
I think, if the leak is from a small hole, then the compressed air will come out like a jet, probably putting out the fire.
But on the contrary, if the hole is too big, the air will smoothly come out and aid the fire, thereby aggravating the situation.