addizzle:
i hear u

Simple and natural

bughead:
let try to be objective here!


Are you there when it happens?


Or you base your assumption on "them say them say principle"

Probably must be he was filling his gen while it was running

Tonytonex:
STOP DISPLAYING UR FOOLISHNESS. don't wait till it happens to you before you learn. simple safety rules some people don't know. and will boldly come out to argue.

You should have answered his question. I'm interested in your answer. Thanks

The fact some people believe this crap, and some are even justifying it by pulling pseudo-scientific from their ass, says alot about education in this country. HOW CAN A PHONE CALL IGNITE GAS?? are u people mad??

Gas is not petrol ffs, one idiot even said phones generate sparks wen call comes in...

y'all messed up in this country....

3kay945:

This is where Google failed you, I guess.

Google failed him? But all these myths helped you, right? The same Grace Gas where they use metal to hit gas cylinder that was leaking gas!

Dalek:
The fact some people believe this crap, and some are even justifying it by pulling pseudo-scientific from their ass, says alot about education in this country. HOW CAN A PHONE CALL IGNITE GAS?? are u people mad??

Gas is not petrol ffs, one idiot even said phones generate sparks wen call comes in...

y'all messed up in this country....

Easy.

nextstep:


You're given a perfectly valid scientific sequence of events, and off you go dragging in the spiritual.

For the same reason we're advised not to get in/out of the car while pumping gas, or smoke cigarettes at the pump, etc..

In dryer climates, you can generate static electricity by motion (cloth rubbing on body), which is then discharged upon contact with a metal object, like a car or pump. The discharge causes a spark which can ignite the fumes of gas or petrol. She might have accidentally caused some static discharge (though I don't know what the phone had to do with it). It doesn't happen too often, but as you can see, it does happen.

It's unfortunate it happened (RIP to her), and in saner countries, there'd be an investigation into the leakage.

You should have just posted the bolded part.

bughead:
Read and upgrade your memory!


https://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp

www.nydailynews.com/autos/cell-phones-don-pump-fires-experts-article-1.1123228

https://canadasafetycouncil.org/safety-canada-online/article/cell-phones-risks-and-rumour

www.abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=127836&sid=248

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/accidents-hazardous-conditions/using-cell-phone-at-gas-pump-make-it-explode.htm

Oga commot, I worked on site where gas turbine is being installed. Phone call is forbidden when on site.

mechanics:
One of the safety rules in a filling station is not to receive calls and switch off all engines, that's why when people normally scoop fuel and the fuel explode, it must be as a result of a phone call, that's very dangerous, and even the pump attendant was not even security conscious, so unfortunate.

Not as a result of phone calls but as a result of two metal containers hitting one another and causes spark.

ipodstinks:
Oga commot, I worked on site where gas turbine is being installed. Phone call is forbidden when on site.

Myth.

Olu4all:
Very simple, phone emits Electromagnetic wave and one of the characteristic of electromagnetic wave is high energy in form of heat, may be during filling of the cylinder there was much accumulation of heat from the phone which collided with the gas molecules leading to the ignition and note electromagnetic wave is invisible. People with little knowledge of physics will understand better.

Why are we not feeling this heat even if we can't see it? Or, are we not supposed to feel this "heat"? Many links have been provided, stop believing in myth.

bobokunlexzy:
Some Nairalanders are funny for their epic comments like "Village people" "itz a lie" etc Dont u guys go to petrol station & see the sign that switch off ur phone here. Phn calls emits radioactive waves & can trigger explosions where there is/are highly inflammable matter

Lol. Is this a fantasy science or fiction?

9jvirgin:
I actually got these news from someone that was at the scene. Quite sad.
May God Bless her soul. Too many sad news these days. The gods must be angry.

Yes but not on 13 but on 8 Dec.......

anowrite:
President of Rotary Club International, Olori Opeyemi Omobolawa Fola, has died as result of gas explosion in Osogbo.

This happened barely 48 hours after a gas cylinder explosion triggered by a phone call, killed three people in Sagamu, Ogun State.

The sad incident happened on Wednesday December 13, 2017. The trained senior nurse who was also the President, Rotary Club International, GRA, Osogbo, was said to have gone to the popular Grace Gas, Osogbo, to refill her cylinder, when she suddenly had a call and brought out her phone from her pocket.

According to an eyewitness, the phone exploded instantly, set the woman and her car on fire, flung the cylinder to a far distance. Some others were also said to have been seriously injured as a result of the explosion.


http://www.lodgerill.com.ng/2017/12/president-of-rotary-club-international.html

But it was on 8 December not 13......

Olu4all:
Very simple, phone emits Electromagnetic wave and one of the characteristic of electromagnetic wave is high energy in form of heat, may be during filling of the cylinder there was much accumulation of heat from the phone which collided with the gas molecules leading to the ignition and note electromagnetic wave is invisible. People with little knowledge of physics will understand better.

This is bullshit. Electromagnetic radiation from a mobile phone isnt enough to collide with cylinder gas vapours to [produce sparks enough to cause such deadly explosion or even ionizing radiation that can knock off electron(s) from an atom.



I heard a similar bullshit yesterday about cellphone electromags causing brain cancer


According to an eyewitness, the phone exploded instantly, set the woman and her car on fire, flung the cylinder to a far distance. Some others were also said to have been seriously injured as a result of the explosion.

about the further narration above, even an EMP can't fling a 12.5kg cylinder (to a far distance).

If the story is to be true, then terrorists simply need to mass order only LPG-filled gas cylinders and mobile phones

addizzle:
A friend of mine witnessed it.. .may ur soul rest in peace ma....still using my phone touch ooo in d kitchen... Getting a reachargable tomorrow.. ...

See baka

femi4:
See baka

R u a COW?? ?naughty U

addizzle:
R u a COW?? ?naughty U

go ahead....call me names, your back side dey buga o

femi4:
go ahead....call me names, your back side dey buga o

sealed lips.

Her village people una weldone


RIP to d dead

maasoap:

Not as a result of phone calls but as a result of two metal containers hitting one another and causes spark.

okay, thanks.

bughead:
what are you saying?

Ever you wonder trying to hold something and it produce one certain sparks that you can visibly see?

And it happens during dry seasons!

I hear you.

Eaglesence:



We no know ooo I'm hearing it for the first time. Phone call and gas

never try that....

RIP

Most of those fake and uncertified chinese,taiwan and even aba phones that are generously used in nigeria could be ticking time bombs.

In the good old days of early mobile phones, phones had keypads that works on same principles as our regular domestic electric switch. That is, when u depress your keypad, the positive and negative terminals beneath the keypads on the panel will contact to send electric signals to the IC of the phone which further sends instructions to the processor etc (those that repair phones will easily understand this). Also, a spark is generated. The magnitude of these sparks increases with age of phone, quality of phone and usage (how u depress the keypad) at the filling station

The contact between the terminals generates spark that is very minimal and sometimes unseen or unnoticed by naked eyes but very substantial in critical placea like refineries, gas stations, fuel stations etc where the presence of excited hydrocarbons are excessive. Our phones are not water tight hence air penetrates into the phone( d reason u notice little traces of dust in the phone when u dismantle your phone). Hence, in a hydrocarbon saturated atmospher, your phone will have a high presence of these excited hydrocarbons inside/within its panel as a result of diffusion or pressure diffrential.

So when your phone has collected these hydrocarbon, and you depress your keypad, the terminal contacts and releases a spark, then boom, the already excited hydrocarbon will be very obliged to reward you with an explosion.

Same thing goes for camera. The shutter sometime causes spark and the camera light generates heat.

These days of soft touch phones has eliminated the presence of keypad sparks to some extent. However, the touch pads works based on d principle of static electricity which is very negligible but could still be dangerous especially in highly concentrated areas like refineries and gas plant.

The touch pad still works by the original principle of positive terminal contacting with negative terminal in order to send a signal to the IC. The IC could generates more heat and sparks when picking a call because of the antena engagement. It may be likened to an induction motor that consumes more power when started. That is what happens when you pick a call.

be there

johnshagb:
Hard to believe RIP

nothing like village pple..you better take correction if u do something like this

hapime:
Her village people una weldone


RIP to d dead

HtwoOw:
Gas cylinder ignited by phone?


It must be village people

do you want us to follow you too?

bughead:
read this and upgrade your memory!


https://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp

www.nydailynews.com/autos/cell-phones-don-pump-fires-experts-article-1.1123228

https://canadasafetycouncil.org/safety-canada-online/article/cell-phones-risks-and-rumour

www.abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=127836&sid=248

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/accidents-hazardous-conditions/using-cell-phone-at-gas-pump-make-it-explode.htm

I never asked of ur opinion cos everyone is entitled to his/her opinion.
Ur moniker though

bughead:
read this and upgrade your memory!


https://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp

www.nydailynews.com/autos/cell-phones-don-pump-fires-experts-article-1.1123228

https://canadasafetycouncil.org/safety-canada-online/article/cell-phones-risks-and-rumour

www.abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=127836&sid=248

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/accidents-hazardous-conditions/using-cell-phone-at-gas-pump-make-it-explode.htm

I never asked of ur opinion cos everyone is entitled to his/her opinion.
Ur moniker though

maasoap:

Lol. Is this a fantasy science or fiction?

Bros pls help me to practicalise all I said on my behalf. Expecting ur feed back soonest. Lolzzzz

maasoap:

Not as a result of phone calls but as a result of two metal containers hitting one another and causes spark.

The bottom line is for us to avoid making phone calls when we are in the filling station.

bobokunlexzy:


I never asked of ur opinion cos everyone is entitled to his/her opinion.
Ur moniker though

I never asked of ur opinion cos everyone is entitled to his/her opinion.
Ur moniker though

knowledge is profitable thou!