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What Gasoline is called around the World (i.redd.it)

submitted 6 days ago by EfreetSK@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 days ago (4 children)

A gas is not a liquid, change my mind

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago (3 children)

[–] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_natural_gas

Substitute natural gas (SNG), or synthetic natural gas, is a fuel gas (predominantly methane, CH4) that can be produced from fossil fuels such as lignite coal, oil shale, or from biofuels (when it is named bio-SNG) or using electricity with power-to-gas systems.

So we've got "gas" in the US (short for "gasoline"), which is a liquid. There's liquified petroleum gas (LPG), which is also a liquid. And there's synthetic natural gas.

EDIT: Bonus: my understanding is that in Germany, an unqualified "gas" tends to refer to natural gas, which Germany is presently importing in liquid form (liquified natural gas, or LNG).

[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 5 points 6 days ago

What's wrong with LPG?

Petrol is a liquid. When liquid petrol evaporates is becomes a gas. When gaseous petrol is compressed in a container as pictured it becomes a liquid until it is released and allowed to expand again, hence liquefied (compressed) petroleum gas.

[–] CelloMike@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Capacity 20993... whats? I can only assume mL and it's a forced perspective thing

[–] aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Looking at the sign on the tank I am guessing this is USA and that would be gallons so it would be roughly 79,467 liters or 79,467,150 milliliters.

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It does look like 20K gallons by the size of it. That is about half as big as the large semi tankers that deliver gasoline.

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah units are kinda important for this sort of stuff.

Source: a certain mars mission

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

I have never filled my car's tank with "a gas," I fill it with gas, which is short for gasoline. That abbreviation being a homonym for gas, a chemical phase, is merely an unfortunate coincidence.

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

No, but it is fluid.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'll need to elevate the pressure and temperature a bit, but I think I can make the critical point.