From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

"Explosions" are a great way to destroy engines.  You ordinarily
want a smoothly expanding flame front.  There's a sound reason why
everything in a diesel needs to be a lot beefier than in a gas engine.  GM
learned this the hard way...

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:42b4ad38{at}w3.nls.net...
> Tony Ingenoso wrote:
> > That's just an implementation detail.  A chemist doesn't really care
what
> > basic HC building blocks they're given to work with.  With enough work
> > anything can become anything else.
> >
>
> But why bother? Compress the liquid & it may well vapourize anyway &
> then explode the mixture.
>
> Adam

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