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Originally Posted by Singularity
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Nice. But this includes all fires, not just fires started by an explosion. How about some data that is relevant to this instance? Causes of explosions? Even more to the point, what is the breakdown of different
fuel sources that resulted in explosions?
What I really am interested in, is what caused this particular explosion, not statistics. I am sure that statistics would be about evenly split between gasoline and propane, when it comes to the actual
fuel causing an explosion. The spark or heat source aside. Really, what else is there? Pyrotechnics, firearms/ammo, butane and butane lighters, what else?
Diesel could of course be heated to vaporization and be explosive with the right mixture of fuel and air, but this isn't going to occur very often. Maybe a malfunctioning
diesel stove? In rare instances hydrogen could concievably be trapped and concentrated, from
charging batteries, and explode, but hydrogen tends to rise and float away, instead of sinking into bilges and staying there until moved by ventilating.
Anyway, we are speculating. I am wondering what the actual cause of the explosion was.