At 01:33 PM 12/5/2010, Alistair Bell wrote:
>I say that David does need to set up a hot plate and drip fluids onto
>it. Video of expt. would be required :)

I'm touched.  Even though I had more in mind a vertical plate and
operating a squeeze bulb from twenty feet away, I'm still touched.  :-P

>I've always been impressed at the whump of ignition when using
>gasoline to light brush piles (we seem to generate a ton of that
>stuff here on the "farm", and yes, we really do want a big chipper).
>Diesel is so much safer to use, but sometimes the neighbour and I (he
>is a bad influence) fool around.

Boy, I wish we were neighbors.  Actually it's probably as well that
we live four thousand miles apart.

>Even on cold days the gasoline vapours spread further than I imagine.

I was distantly present when a friend thought he could toss a kitchen
match held at arms-length far enough.  Brush burnt nicely, and so did
his eyebrows.  He didn't speak of his reactions, but his boy and I,
fifty feet away, were impressed.

:-)
d