May 15
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.
Video via Spluch
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May 15th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I have always wondered why but I never thought this will be so effective to burn it down….
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May 15th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
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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May 17th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Kinda scary
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May 17th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
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May 17th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
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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May 19th, 2007 at 7:43 am
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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May 20th, 2007 at 5:14 am
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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October 10th, 2007 at 2:50 am
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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March 15th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Guys, can anybody explains the technicality on how to the petrol burns and can cause a big explosion?
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