[Shop-talk] Storing Gasoline; was: Re: OT--car won't start

[fishplate at gmail.com (Jeff Scarbrough)]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have some education/training in chemistry, but have never understood how an 
> organic compound like gasoline--or an inorganic compound, for that 
> matter--can be 'stabilized.'

My completely uninformed thoughts on the matter are that they contain
something to disperse water, and an oily substance that is immiscible
in gasoline and also less dense, sealing the lighter fractions in the
gas.

Jeff Scarbrough
Corrosion Acres, Ga.