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Subject: Please describe the combustion properties of Coleman fuel (white gas)

Date: Sat Nov 21 02:44:44 1998
Posted by Chuck Nafziger
Grade level: grad (science)
School: No school entered.
City: Seattle State/Province: WA
Country: usa
Area of science: Other
ID: 911637884.Ot
Message:

I am interested in fire art (sculptures with fire).  For fuel, we 
often use kerosene which is approximately equivalent to #1 diesel.  We 
also use less volatile fuels such as #2 diesel~#2 heating oil.  For 
easier ignition in cold wet weather (most of the time in Seattle) we 
cut the diesel or kerosene with Coleman fuel.  Where in a chart of 
petroleum distillation, which plots temperature vs percent evaporated, 
would "coleman fuel" fit.  I am fairly sure it plots between 
automotive gasoline and kerosene, but I do not know how close it is to 
either.  I would like to understand more about this fuel.


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