This storable calculator shows 1026 K at 22:1 compression
ratio in a diesel.
You cannot light diesel fuel with a match either, unless
you heat it to the flash point. I used a bit of methanol
as a primer, but burned off my eyelashes, eyebrows,
pompadour, and nose hair when I was putting the lid on
the "empty" one-gallon methanol can in the sunlight.
With a very red singed face I looked kind of strange.
I had to use eyebrow pencil and mascara for days after.
Fred
>>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Jones Beene
>>
>> --- Fred,
>>
>> The so-called "fire-water" seems to require an electric
>> field before becoming useful. It will not support a
>> flame. A preliminary test in a "HydroBooster" (small
>> electrolyzer mounted in a car) like this one:
>>
>
> Fine. Use an ignition coil or capacitor and metal rods in
> the small bore quartz tube, they should spark when they
> get close enough on the "compression" stroke, the
> trapped air can get up to over 1000 K due to compression.
>
> If it will work in an ICE, it has to work on the bench.
>
> This allows you to do simple calorimetry too.
>
> Fred
>
