epilot

so what is their use rather than shocking the innocent peoples? :roll:

Someone Electro

Igniting flamable stuff.Propane in an cigarete lighter for exsample.

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audioguru

Propane stinks so you can smell a leak. If cigarette lighters used it then nobody would buy one.
They use butane, for exhample.

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Someone Electro

Its the same gas and stinks too,

Try holding the button on a lighetr and smell it.

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audioguru

Maybe in your country they use methane gas in lighters. It stinks too.
I wonder which animal produced it. :lol:

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panic mode

propane doesn't have smell and so it's not detectable. this can be very dangerous. this is why the parfume is mixed with it (just to give it smell).
and since it has to be cheap, it doesn't smell too nice :lol: :lol: :lol:

audioguru

Luckily there aren't many diesel cars here. I wonder which chemical they add to diesel fuel to make it stink!
They are putting corn alcohol in gasoline now to make it smell better. :wink:

I think the butane gas in lighters is propane without the stinking stuff. :lol:

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Karaethon

I dont know about the rest of the world but in the US they use Butane in lighters, butane is not propane, they are different gasses.

Butane is CH3CH2CH2CH3
Propane is CH3CH2CH3 or C3H8


Butane: also called n-butane, is the unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms, CH3CH2CH2CH3. Butane is also used as a collective term for n-butane together with its only other isomer, iso-butane (also called i-butane, isobutane, or 2-methylpropane), CH3CH(CH3)2.

Propane: a hydrocarbon fuel gas with the formula C3H8 that is used primarily as a bottled gas for heating and cooking. Being heavier than air, if propane is in a buried pipeline, it will require a separate pump to bring a sample into a gas detector's sensor chamber.

About the Smell of Propane:
By nature, propane is clear and contains no scent at all. For safety purposes propane companies add a substance known as ethyl mercaptan to the propane fuel. Ethyl mercaptan has a strong rotten egg, or skunk-like scent, which allows the consumer to smell it in the case of a leak. If you smell something similar near your appliances and your tank it is ALSO possible that you are low on fuel. Ethyl mercaptan is heavier than propane and sinks to the bottom of the tank so when the tank is low on fuel the ethyl mercaptan odorant will become even more noticeable.


I couldnt find anything about Butane's smell.
LINKS:
About Butane
About Propane




Oh, and Finally, Desel Fuel (at least as far as I know) does not have any additives to make it smell so wonderful, and yes I mean wonderful( I love tractor trailer trucks, lol) Although here in the US they do add a red dye to it to sell it as heating oil.

audioguru

Diesel fuel smells so wonderful that when you are behind a school bus and it zooms forward, the black cloud can also be tasted. Yummy!

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Karaethon

mmmm I love it. diesel rocks.

Someone Electro

Diesel stinks if you ask me.But i like the smell of petrol.Thats the only good thing about mowling the lawn.You get a nice smell of it when refiling the mowler.

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audioguru

Have you smelled the nice scent of grain alcohol (ethanol) in modern petrol?

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moody07747

here, butane has a smell to it...not like sulfur though...i still hate it...filling my torches and all....

but those little sparkers will light steel wool easily

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audioguru

What is the nice scent from a flint spark? Ozone?

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