Strictly speaking, alcohol vapor is mixed with air in a certain proportion when it explodes in case of fire. The reason why alcohol vapor will explode after being mixed with air in a certain proportion is that this mixture can complete the combustion process in a very short time and concentrate on releasing energy to form an explosion.

Explosion, the process of transforming energy from one form to another or several forms with strong mechanical effects. Ethanol vapor explosion is a combustion process completed in a very short time, which releases a lot of energy, produces high temperature and releases a lot of gas, causing high-pressure chemical reactions in the surrounding media.

In layman's terms, alcohol explosion means that after volatile alcohol is mixed with air, the combustion reaction is completed at once when it meets a fire source, and an explosion is formed due to the extremely fast reaction speed.

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1, beverage products

Ethanol is the main component of wine (the content is related to the type of wine).

Note: The ethanol in daily drinking wine is not added with ethanol, but is obtained by microbial fermentation. Of course, depending on the type of microorganisms used, there will be related substances such as acetic acid or sugar. ?

2. Organic raw materials

Ethanol is also a basic organic chemical raw material, which can be used to prepare acetaldehyde, ether, ethyl acetate, ethylamine and other chemical raw materials, as well as solvents, dyes, coatings, detergents and other products.

3. Automobile fuel

Ethanol can be used as automobile fuel or mixed with gasoline as mixed fuel.

The ethanol produced by Jinya sweet sorghum accounts for 10% of gasoline in China. Ethanol gasoline has been sold in America for more than 20 years.