How explosive is diesel fuel

[brianhumber]

Agree, cold diesel in NW Europe bilges is smelly but not really dangerous. If its in a tank with saturated vapour ie no oxygen you can chuck a butt end in and it will not idnite/explode (I have seen this done on an old WW2 T2 tanker in central america.)When it gets hotter and is surrounded by free air watch out and take care.

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[PerL]

Not just terrorists. We mixed diesel and [a standard gardening product] to make explosives in the army a long time ago. Only problem with this is that you need a reasonably good primary charge to set it off. Preferrably plastic explosives, which most people don't have ready access to.

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