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1: If you have a bottle full of fuel it wouldn't ignite
you see it's not the fuel that burns it's the vapour and it needs sufficient oxygen to create a good explosion, something like 1:10 fuel to oxygen
you just need a lil bit of fuel at the bottom and then it would work

The bottle was 1/2 full, plus it had just been opened many times and there was sufficient air to ignite the fuel

2. plus if it did what you said and went everywhere and ended up all over the room it would have caused far more damage.

The fuel didn't explode, the lid popped open as the the vapour of the fuel (remember its glow pug fuel that is more oil than petrol) lit and expanded, the fuel was pushed out of the bottle as a flaming oil fire, not an exploding petrol one

3. if it exploded in the first place chances are your dad would have heard it and/or the fire alarm would have gone off or he would have smelt something queet wrong.

It was upstairs in a Victorian built brick house, like I said the fuel popped the lid of the bottle and expelled the fuel. My dad was in the kitchen which was in an extension, it was 16 years ago, in an unmodernised house - there were no fire alarm, the fire lasted for about 30 seconds, not long enough for smoke to leach through a closed door and downstairs.

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