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Re: [Shop-talk] Storing Gasoline; was: Re: OT--car won't start

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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Storing Gasoline; was: Re: OT--car won't start
From: Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:59:42 -0500
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net> wrote:
> I have some education/training in chemistry, but have never understood how an 
>organic compound like gasoline--or an inorganic compound, for that matter--can 
>be 'stabilized.'

My completely uninformed thoughts on the matter are that they contain
something to disperse water, and an oily substance that is immiscible
in gasoline and also less dense, sealing the lighter fractions in the
gas.

Jeff Scarbrough
Corrosion Acres, Ga.
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