Aerosol can in fire

For more safety information and to stay up to date with everything the Service is up to, follow us on social media:. Press Release pdf Do not pierce aerosols, even when they are empty, because there is always some pressure, and possibly some of the product left.

It may be flammable or cause injury if you pierce the can. Keep aerosols out of direct sunlight and in a cold dry place away from heat. The pressure inside the can increases greatly in the heat and may cause it to burst.

Aerosol cans should never be in fires or heated locations as they may explode. The propellant inside may also be flammable. Ryder was standing near the fire with his mom and sister when the can exploded. Ryder suffered second-degree burns on his face, ears, neck and right arm, but his left arm was the most severely burned.

The road to recovery is a long one. Ryder will go through surgery on Tuesday to clean his burns. It will then be decided if he needs a skin graft for his left arm. After that it will be at least a month of recovery, physical therapy, and occupational therapy. His mom and dad, Rocky Faircloth, are praying for as smooth a recovery as possible.

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Picture 4. This is because the pressure will build so up so much that the can will burst and explode if there is a naked flame nearby. There are two reasons for the pressure going up: the gas pressure increases more of the liquefied propellant turns into a gas.

Let's look at these in more detail. Absolute temperature We call kelvin temperatures absolute temperatures. The particles in a gas are moving. They bump into the walls creating a pressure.

When a gas is heated, its particles speed up. There are two ways that this increases the pressure: the faster particles bump into the container walls more often each collision is harder because the particles are moving faster. The pressure of a gas increases if the temperature increases. We get a stronger relationship between pressure and temperature as long as we measure the temperature on the absolute temperature scale see box on the left.