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To start with, it is theoretically possible to set off a petrol fire with a phone. The amount of energy needed for a spark to ignite petrol vapour is 0.2 mJ, which is roughly one five-millionth of the energy stored in a fully-charged phone battery. The difficulty is that the phone is not designed to make sparks. The lithium battery could explode while charging if its internal regulator circuit was very faulty. But you don't normally simultaneously charge and talk on your mobile phone while refuelling your car. The internal electronics of the phone could fail and make a spark - but the spark would be too small. And why worry about the phone battery when you have batteries in your iPod, CD player, mini-torch, and yes, don't forget the big 15 kg car battery that powers the electrics of your car? Well, what about the electric field put out by your phone? Yes, the electric field has been measured at 2-5 volts/meter, and has been known to interfere with heart monitors and infant incubators in hospitals, and various electronic equipment in planes. But the electric field from a mobile phone has never been known to set off a fire in a petrol station. And consider that in the UK , some 200 Shell petrol stations have mobile phone towers in the tall petrol price indicators, which stand right there on the forecourt, a few metres from the petrol pumps. The towers put out a lot more grunt than your small mobile phone. So what did set off those 243 petrol station fires? Most of the time, static electricity was the culprit. We've all seen or felt a spark from clothing. If you are wearing synthetic clothes in the dryness of winter, and are sliding in and out of the car, across the synthetic material of the car seat, then you can build up a big static charge. Then, if the earthing wire on the petrol hose is broken, when you touch the metal nozzle of the petrol hose to the metal neck of the petrol tank, you can discharge a visible spark. Even more dangerous, from the static electricity point-of-view, is filling up a small fuel drum. The phone companies post warnings about using phones in petrol stations for two reasons. First, mobile phones are not designed with “Intrinsic Safety” to make them able to operate safely in truly hazardous inflammable vapour situations, and second, fear of legal liability, despite all the evidence showing that mobile phones don't cause fires in petrol stations. So overall, the mobile phone myth is just endless chatter generating a whole lot of static. |
Thank God All these nairaland beaches go soon dey send bro pm....Just watch ![]() |
Tunde Kilani! Our own very legend...Keep the good work up Kunle |
kellystech:Just last month a bro of mine travelled to the US and bought a Samsung Galaxy S6 for me {Korean Version}…I've been using this phone for a while now until last week when i tried snapping a pic and i realised it wasn't capturing.. Why? Gbam! The memory is full i was like WTF cox the internal storage of this phone is 32GB and all i can use is just 4GB....Told a friend and he told me to try wiping it maybe it could be calculation problem I haven't done that and I'm very confused and now thing It's could be fake and all Please help could it actually be fake or should i try wiping it? |
Y'all phone experts should just help me already Just last month a bro of mine travelled to the US and bought a Samsung Galaxy S6 for me {Korean Version}…I've been using this phone for a while now until last week when i tried snapping a pic and i realised it wasn't capturing.. Why? Gbam! The memory is full i was like WTF cox the internal storage of this phone is 32GB and all i can use is just 4GB....Told a friend and he told me to try wiping it maybe it could be calculation problem I haven't done that and I'm very confused and now thing It's could be fake and all Please help could it actually be fake or should i try wiping it? |
Seun Hardmirror What can you guys say about this? If there is no God then how did all these bodies come into existence ![]() |
Beautiful woman This her eyebrow that is pointing South and perpendicular to east no be for here ![]() |
ojun50:You better stop saying what you don't know...You ever seen an unemployed graduate of Pharmacy? |
i nominate vizkiz ,fynestboi obiorathesubtle and smellymouth Vizkiz u get too much enemies for here o....Anyways with much campaign u don get the crown already.... Vizkiz baba leggooo.... |
I always smile whenever I remember how this guy was Jegadized |
daveyjay:And who z wailing here No 5% should quote me |
Not new, They did dame to that Yoruba muslim cleric |
THE MOD DELETED THIS FROM FRONT PAGE....Maybe it being on front page was a mistake Wizkid never won and that's the truth |
I've been trying all sites but ain't going, please what's the best sites |
Jesu!!! Mo ku o! Iru oyon wo leyi o o! Mo ku o And one man will be sucking this Guys don suffer I swear |
Where is PANDA by desinger |
I got a Samsung galaxy s6...And I must confess the front camera has been awesome, but the only problem I have with the phone is that I can't take pictures saying "cheese" as it is in Korean language, the language will just pop up... I don't understand Korea abeg... can anyone teach me how to change the language back to English? |
Anyone knows where I can get fabric markers and washable paints? (at affordable prices o) I need them badly. I've tried bookstores around Ketu and all I get is a blank expression or an 'I don't know' Please help me. Help me please. |
HateU2:CHAI!!! More crazier.... You aff killie English finish |
Oyind17:I've modified the post |
With all sincerity, I deem it fit that the magnificent queen of Nairaland should take the crown own and spend a wonderful night with seu.n I vote Mimzy cc: NLJega |
Anyone knows where I can get fabric markers and washable paints? (at affordable prices o) I need them badly. I've tried bookstores around Ketu and all I get is a blank expression or an 'I don't know' Please help me. Help me please. |
Omo Yoruba,Carry go...Ayato si awon 5%
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I bet Seun and Linda are richer than him...mumu show-off |
I vote Mimzy Ivyy Lanicky cc: NLJega |
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I vote: Ivvy Mimzy Lanicky Refiner Diasyluv ChubbyT cc: NLJega |
Faba:Wassup Faba...I'm Holyfield1,we met at OOU group,never seen your posts until now...How z life? |
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MrKamar:Your step-mother ![]() |
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Wizkid never won and that's the truth