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Originally Posted by darcane
Another concern with pure oxygen is that when mixed with gasoline it will autoignite, even at atmospheric pressures. So, if it mixes in the intake manifold, you would have a fire on your hands before it even got in the combustion chamber. Direct injection would be required.
Pure Oxygen has been used on certain internal combustion engines.... Diesels. I'm not sure if it's still allowed, but they used to inject oxygen into diesels for tractor pulls. It's essentially an extremely potent version of Nitrous Oxide (N2O is 33% oxygen, oxygen is obviously 100% oxygen). It can greatly increases how much torque you can get out of your engine if you put in enough fuel to match.
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At least at room temperature and pressure.
Can you expand on this phenomena?