00:00Throwing water on a fuel fire can make it worse, and a Molotov cocktail shows why.
00:05Gasoline-type fuels give off vapor easily, so a single spark is enough to set the air above them burning.
00:10If the fuel has been thickened, it sticks to whatever it lands on and keeps burning there.
00:15Water doesn't mix with most of these fuels.
00:18Because the fuel is lighter than water, it floats on top, and the burning layer can drift and spread across
00:23the surface.
00:24All of this comes down to how dense the fuel is, how readily it evaporates, and how thick it is.
