Using mobile phones in petrol stations are prohibited because by doing so, there are chances of igniting the gasoline vapor. To demonstrate it, a man placed 3 bits of cards and a crushed cooking foil on a pan. A little of petrol is then being poured onto them. He started making several calls using his mobile phone near the pan, and eventually the cards and cooking foil burns up. Imagine if this happen in a petrol station, it wouldn’t be just a small burning. Be responsible, switch your phone off when you’re in a petrol station.
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I have always wondered why but I never thought this will be so effective to burn it down….
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Nice try,but eventually you have to make many calls and put it nearer to ignite the flame. But we should’t also risk ourself with this matter…
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Kinda scary o.o
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Woaha! Next time, my phone will be really off! I always wondered about this…but this experiment has actually loaded by knowledge bank…
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I imagine the number of phone calls that were needed is why this was debunked on the TV show MythBusters here in the US. They did lots of different things to try and make the gas ignite with the cell phone and never did, including stripping the phone’s antenna and tampering with the battery. I wonder why it requires so many calls — I wonder if the phone calls gradually heat the gas. If that’s the case then I would think it’s perfectly safe to use your phone at the station because it would require someone *trying* to set off the gas — otherwise you’d never have enough phone calls in a short enough period of time.
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I’mmore than sceptical about this as it has NEVER been scientifically proven that a phone can do this!
Electronic device you say?
What about the massive battery in every car which is much more powerfulthan any electronic component in a phone.
Electromagnetic field?
Why do over 200 Shell garages house mobile phone masts in their signs?! They produce much greater fields than any phone.
Sorry, it’s just not true
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In my city, everybody uses mobile phones in petrol stations, but I have never heard of such ignites! I’m sorry but I believe that this is mere gossip without solid proof.
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Guys, can anybody explains the technicality on how to the petrol burns and can cause a big explosion?
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If it is possible at all for moblie phone to cause ignition, then its use is better avoided than taking chances. I work in a filling station and I do not allow my customers to use it. Afterall they only have few minutes to spend while fuelling their vehicles.
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