nitrous
#1
nitrous
OkI know this should be under the other category but w/e. Is nitrous flammable or not? I have heard people say that no its an oxidizer an is not flammable and therefore fast and the furious is fake. If this is true how come I have seen drag cars have their nitrous catch on fire? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ao8zqgweDo
#2
RE: nitrous
Nitrous Oxide itself at room temperature is a colourless gas which is NOT flammable.
The reason it is injected into engines is that it delivers more Oxygen because it decomposes at high temperatures. This allows more oxygen and fuel to burn for a more powerful "power" stroke.
The video wasn't so much an "explosion" as a detonation that killed the engine but you have to realize that isn't JUST nitrous oxide in the cylinders.
The reason it is injected into engines is that it delivers more Oxygen because it decomposes at high temperatures. This allows more oxygen and fuel to burn for a more powerful "power" stroke.
The video wasn't so much an "explosion" as a detonation that killed the engine but you have to realize that isn't JUST nitrous oxide in the cylinders.
#4
RE: nitrous
More like the extra "O" in N2O is a flam-assistant to flamable stuff. Fire needs oxygen to propogate. Inside your engine n2o adds MORE oxygen, which allows you to stuff in more fuel. It has the added side benefit of cooling, somewhat, the air/fuel mixture as it's N is separated from its O during that whole FLAM-thingy
edut: hadda fix muh spelink
edut: hadda fix muh spelink