It seems there is some confusion over the content of this video. We hope we can provide some clarifying information. Flashpoint is a technical term used to characterize the propensity of a liquid to burn. It defines the temperature at which a liquid gives off enough vapor to become ignitible in the air. At that temperature, however, you still need an ignition source like a flame for combustion to occur. Spontaneous combustion, on the other hand, is an entirely different phenomenon that involves self-heating to a point where the material ignites, without the need for any outside ignition source. Hand sanitizer is not subject to self-heating and would require temperatures to reach over 700 degrees Fahrenheit to spontaneously combust, as some commenters have indicated. Learn more from NFPA here: www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publications-and-media/Blogs-Landing-Page/NFPA-Today/Blog-Posts/2020/05/22/can-hand-sanitizer-spontaneously-combust
Hi, @@c_b5060. Thank you for your question! It's a great question, as it recognizes that incidents involving hand sanitizer ignition in vehicles generally are not the result of a single failure or factor, but require several things to go exactly right (or wrong). While the scenario posed by your question is plausible, it's extremely unlikely. Since plastic bottles of hand sanitizer are not usually designed with a tight-sealing lid, it is possible that when exposed to heat in a vehicle the contents could slowly leak from the bottle and, due to the relatively low flashpoint of the alcohol, produce fuel vapors. But assuming a standard, personal-sized bottle of hand sanitizer, even immediate evaporation of all of the alcohol that was in the bottle would not likely result in the necessary concentration of fuel vapor inside the car to produce an ignitable mixture. Additionally, the concentration of fuel vapors inside the vehicle would go down upon opening a door.
Yes, i would like to add - Precautions to be taken in advance while sprying sanitizer to avoid Fire tragedy , as Sanitizer is a highly flammable vaporised liquid, Be Safe & Be Happy. Thanks .
"Accidents" are usually caused by not one, but two or more things happening that, by themselves, would not be a problem. Could my plastic bottle of hand sanitizer get hot enough to begin leaking sanitizer which would then fill my parked car with fumes? Then, when I return to my car, could sparks be generated from such things as: unlocking the car with remote, striking metal car key against other metal (perhaps inside the ignition switch), turning on radio or other accessories, inserting seatbelt into buckle.
If you put any liquor or even lemon, orange, peppermint extract flavorings with more than 70% alcohol on a sugar cube it will light. But that is with a match, not just heat. It makes a pretty flame on top of a giant ice cream sundae, truffle, etc.
@@Kiwi17714 Guess what else has alcohol but we ofeen use in cars and homes without added protection? The first 3 are commonly in cars. Colognes - 80-90% alcohol Hair spray Bug spray After shave Rubbing alcohol
It completely depends on the situation and the angle of the sun through glass glass can very well magnify light into a fire. I once held up a glass ball in the sun and within seconds I had a cigarette like burn in my hand like I had held up a magnifying glass. I am not sure that you folks are interpreting this situation into your assessment and I feel it is foolish not to.
Exactly. I know of someone that had left a kerosene cleaning rag out on a deck railing on a hot summer day. He left the cabin & drove home & that night the local fire department called to tell him that is cabin had burned down. It was in such a remote area, by the time they got to it was spreading to the other cabins. The fire department said that the rag self combusted because of the Sun.
@@MyOver50 That is spontaneous combustion which is a very different thing. Spontaneous combustion occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal reactions), followed by thermal runaway (self heating which rapidly accelerates to high temperatures) and finally, autoignition. It happens with certain materials like haystacks, compost piles, carbon-based animal or vegetable oils, such as linseed oil, cooking oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, soybean oil, lard and margarine, can undergo spontaneous combustion when in contact with rags, cardboard, paper or other combustibles.
Get out a magnifying glass and try to ignite some hand sanitizer. It won't ignite until it reaches 689 degrees F. It is very difficult for that to happen without a spark or open flame. Watch these guys try ua-cam.com/video/WuoO5RqXDak/v-deo.html
This must be homemade hand sanitizer because I have the small bottles of hand sanitizer in my car at all times. I've had them in Florida and also in Washington and they've never caught on fire.
Na... It's mostly just hyperbole. Alcohol can't ignite unless you introduce a flame or a spark or something above 689 degrees F. So if your bottle leaked and filled your car with fumes and you somehow introduced a spark or flame, then yes, it would ignite.
Say my car is sitting in the hot sun in the summer, should I be worried if my hand sanitizer is in the glove box, can it spontaneously combust just from heat?
Thanks for your question, Ken! The vapors generated at the flashpoint of hand sanitizer discussed in this video still require an ignition source (like a flame from a candle) to cause the vapors being released by the liquid to ignite. For it to spontaneously combust with no other, external ignition source other than self-heating alone, you’d have to reach over 700 degrees F!
@@nfpa Can a bottle left in the same car, but in the open start fire due to magnification effects of the bottle? If so, could you share some cases of this? There seems to be some question to a claim made by our local fire district that this can happen. facebook.com/photo?fbid=2694821094135522&set=a.1937306223220350
@@mkatherineeagan7007 That's what brought me here, trying to find out if this could happen. I found it to be suspicious. The picture they showed looked more like an electrical fire or something.
@@jeff431979 did ANY of you not read their original reply???? It needs a (fire) ignition source! Or the inside if the car must reach over 700°F. And who tf has hand sanitizer in an opened container anyway? Pure stupidity.
The only technical issue with the video was the inappropriate use of the phrase “spontaneous combustion.” There is no such type of combustion, there is only spontaneous ignition.
Flash point has little to do with the ignition point. Gasoline has a flash point of minus 45 F (-45F). It won't ignite until 428 F. Alcohol can't ignite until 689 degrees F.
Some very misleading statements on this video. Having 17,000 bottles of sanitizer is not view as large quantities as each bottle is only 30 ml. That doesn't mean there is 510,000 ml of sanitizer. Also, statement of distilleries converting to producing sanitizer and stating that they don't normally store with as high percentage alcohol? Wow, really? Sanitizer roughly 62% Ethyl alcohol, Whisky 60% Ethanol Alcohol. Have you ever been to a distillery? I have never seen more strict safety rules of their storage of Whisky. No cell phones allowed in the warehouse and/or labs. Due to the potential ignition source of the cell phone. However, I am not sure on American distilleries, I cannot speak of their safety standards.I know it is a safety video but it is like saying do not put your finger in a burning flame, you might burn yourself.
I came here to find out about hand sanitizer in my car and now I’m hearing about storing gallons of it? Could this be more off topic or more fear mongering? Nope! Ridiculous video!
This is what they said in the comments above: Thanks for your question, Ken! The vapors generated at the flashpoint of hand sanitizer discussed in this video still require an ignition source (like a flame from a candle) to cause the vapors being released by the liquid to ignite. For it to spontaneously combust with no other, external ignition source other than self-heating alone, you’d have to reach over 700 degrees F
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It seems there is some confusion over the content of this video. We hope we can provide some clarifying information.
Flashpoint is a technical term used to characterize the propensity of a liquid to burn. It defines the temperature at which a liquid gives off enough vapor to become ignitible in the air. At that temperature, however, you still need an ignition source like a flame for combustion to occur. Spontaneous combustion, on the other hand, is an entirely different phenomenon that involves self-heating to a point where the material ignites, without the need for any outside ignition source. Hand sanitizer is not subject to self-heating and would require temperatures to reach over 700 degrees Fahrenheit to spontaneously combust, as some commenters have indicated.
Learn more from NFPA here: www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publications-and-media/Blogs-Landing-Page/NFPA-Today/Blog-Posts/2020/05/22/can-hand-sanitizer-spontaneously-combust
Hi, @@c_b5060. Thank you for your question! It's a great question, as it recognizes that incidents involving hand sanitizer ignition in vehicles generally are not the result of a single failure or factor, but require several things to go exactly right (or wrong). While the scenario posed by your question is plausible, it's extremely unlikely.
Since plastic bottles of hand sanitizer are not usually designed with a tight-sealing lid, it is possible that when exposed to heat in a vehicle the contents could slowly leak from the bottle and, due to the relatively low flashpoint of the alcohol, produce fuel vapors. But assuming a standard, personal-sized bottle of hand sanitizer, even immediate evaporation of all of the alcohol that was in the bottle would not likely result in the necessary concentration of fuel vapor inside the car to produce an ignitable mixture. Additionally, the concentration of fuel vapors inside the vehicle would go down upon opening a door.
Yes, i would like to add - Precautions to be taken in advance while sprying sanitizer to avoid Fire tragedy , as Sanitizer is a highly flammable vaporised liquid,
Be Safe & Be Happy. Thanks .
Can we try this at home
"Accidents" are usually caused by not one, but two or more things happening that, by themselves, would not be a problem. Could my plastic bottle of hand sanitizer get hot enough to begin leaking sanitizer which would then fill my parked car with fumes? Then, when I return to my car, could sparks be generated from such things as: unlocking the car with remote, striking metal car key against other metal (perhaps inside the ignition switch), turning on radio or other accessories, inserting seatbelt into buckle.
Good 2 know thanks 4 the share
If you put any liquor or even lemon, orange, peppermint extract flavorings with more than 70% alcohol on a sugar cube it will light. But that is with a match, not just heat. It makes a pretty flame on top of a giant ice cream sundae, truffle, etc.
Very cool.. bartenders do all sorts of funky things with flames lately. This is something I could use with my nieces and nephews. Thank you
Thanks for the great information!
pretty informative
Thank You for the Great Information.
What a load of bollox you need 500 to 1000 deg to actually ignite this.
And the bottles have to be open to slow vapours to build up
I believe around 790F would do it
@@Kiwi17714 Guess what else has alcohol but we ofeen use in cars and homes without added protection? The first 3 are commonly in cars.
Colognes - 80-90% alcohol
Hair spray
Bug spray
After shave
Rubbing alcohol
seriously??? why are they allowed on planes then hmmmmm
It completely depends on the situation and the angle of the sun through glass glass can very well magnify light into a fire.
I once held up a glass ball in the sun and within seconds I had a cigarette like burn in my hand like I had held up a magnifying glass.
I am not sure that you folks are interpreting this situation into your assessment and I feel it is foolish not to.
Exactly. I know of someone that had left a kerosene cleaning rag out on a deck railing on a hot summer day. He left the cabin & drove home & that night the local fire department called to tell him that is cabin had burned down. It was in such a remote area, by the time they got to it was spreading to the other cabins. The fire department said that the rag self combusted because of the Sun.
@@MyOver50 That is spontaneous combustion which is a very different thing. Spontaneous combustion occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal reactions), followed by thermal runaway (self heating which rapidly accelerates to high temperatures) and finally, autoignition. It happens with certain materials like haystacks, compost piles, carbon-based animal or vegetable oils, such as linseed oil, cooking oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, soybean oil, lard and margarine, can undergo spontaneous combustion when in contact with rags, cardboard, paper or other combustibles.
Get out a magnifying glass and try to ignite some hand sanitizer. It won't ignite until it reaches 689 degrees F. It is very difficult for that to happen without a spark or open flame. Watch these guys try ua-cam.com/video/WuoO5RqXDak/v-deo.html
@@mosslimbayter277 thanks
This must be homemade hand sanitizer because I have the small bottles of hand sanitizer in my car at all times. I've had them in Florida and also in Washington and they've never caught on fire.
Na... It's mostly just hyperbole. Alcohol can't ignite unless you introduce a flame or a spark or something above 689 degrees F. So if your bottle leaked and filled your car with fumes and you somehow introduced a spark or flame, then yes, it would ignite.
Say my car is sitting in the hot sun in the summer, should I be worried if my hand sanitizer is in the glove box, can it spontaneously combust just from heat?
Thanks for your question, Ken! The vapors generated at the flashpoint of hand sanitizer discussed in this video still require an ignition source (like a flame from a candle) to cause the vapors being released by the liquid to ignite. For it to spontaneously combust with no other, external ignition source other than self-heating alone, you’d have to reach over 700 degrees F!
@@nfpa Can a bottle left in the same car, but in the open start fire due to magnification effects of the bottle? If so, could you share some cases of this? There seems to be some question to a claim made by our local fire district that this can happen.
facebook.com/photo?fbid=2694821094135522&set=a.1937306223220350
@@nfpa a fire department in Oconomowoc, WI is in the news warning of summer heat and car fires from hand sanitizer.
@@mkatherineeagan7007 That's what brought me here, trying to find out if this could happen. I found it to be suspicious. The picture they showed looked more like an electrical fire or something.
@@jeff431979 did ANY of you not read their original reply???? It needs a (fire) ignition source! Or the inside if the car must reach over 700°F.
And who tf has hand sanitizer in an opened container anyway? Pure stupidity.
The only technical issue with the video was the inappropriate use of the phrase “spontaneous combustion.” There is no such type of combustion, there is only spontaneous ignition.
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Whoa, the flashpoint is 63 degrees?!
This just means that the liquid will give off vapour at that temp.
Flash point has little to do with the ignition point.
Gasoline has a flash point of minus 45 F (-45F). It won't ignite until 428 F.
Alcohol can't ignite until 689 degrees F.
even if hand sanitizer has the same things happen if u burn it like when you burn alcohol DONT DRINK HAND SANITIZER
Some very misleading statements on this video. Having 17,000 bottles of sanitizer is not view as large quantities as each bottle is only 30 ml. That doesn't mean there is 510,000 ml of sanitizer. Also, statement of distilleries converting to producing sanitizer and stating that they don't normally store with as high percentage alcohol? Wow, really? Sanitizer roughly 62% Ethyl alcohol, Whisky 60% Ethanol Alcohol. Have you ever been to a distillery? I have never seen more strict safety rules of their storage of Whisky. No cell phones allowed in the warehouse and/or labs. Due to the potential ignition source of the cell phone. However, I am not sure on American distilleries, I cannot speak of their safety standards.I know it is a safety video but it is like saying do not put your finger in a burning flame, you might burn yourself.
I came here to find out about hand sanitizer in my car and now I’m hearing about storing gallons of it? Could this be more off topic or more fear mongering? Nope! Ridiculous video!
God damn it Wisconsin. Go home, you're drunk.
This is what they said in the comments above: Thanks for your question, Ken! The vapors generated at the flashpoint of hand sanitizer discussed in this video still require an ignition source (like a flame from a candle) to cause the vapors being released by the liquid to ignite. For it to spontaneously combust with no other, external ignition source other than self-heating alone, you’d have to reach over 700 degrees F