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3 unusual facts about Lighter fluid


Lighter fluid

Naphtha or white gas, a volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture used in wick type lighters

Charcoal lighter fluid, an aliphatic petroleum solvent used in lighting charcoal in a barbecue grill

Butane, a highly flammable, colorless, easily liquefied gas used in cigarette lighters



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Alan Goodrick

He filmed (and owns the print of) the Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid film, drove Bill Drummond and Mark Manning to the top of the world (as recounted in Bad Wisdom), and was the ski-masked person fumbling with lighter fluid and matches when Rachel Whiteread came to claim the K Foundation art award.

Rayleigh–Taylor instability

The equilibrium here is unstable to any perturbations or disturbances of the interface: if a parcel of heavier fluid is displaced downward with an equal volume of lighter fluid displaced upwards, the potential energy of the configuration is lower than the initial state.