Gasoline specific weight. Weight of 1 liter of gasoline

It is extremely difficult to imagine the modern world without fuel obtained from petroleum refining. Gasoline and diesel fuel are used everywhere, in almost all industries. Knowledge of gasoline qualities and characteristics is especially important for drivers.

What Is Gasoline?

The human mind is constantly searching for something new. After the appearance of steam locomotives and railways, the time came for the invention of the internal combustion engine.

The first oil refinery was built in 1745, but simple oil distillation produced only kerosene, which was used for lighting lamps. In 1825, British physicist Michael Faraday first obtained the first sample of real gasoline through numerous chemical experiments. More precisely, it was the first sample of a hydrocarbon mixture with minimal ignition conditions. Later, gasoline would be considered a mixture of light hydrocarbons with a varied boiling temperature range from +33 to +205 ºC.

The specific smell of the substance and the country from which Faraday received raw material for experiments led the physicist to an association with an Arabic word meaning “fragrance.” This is how gasoline got its name.

The creation of the gasoline engine and the first automobile followed a difficult path. Many inventors contributed to what almost every one of us uses today.

How Much Does Gasoline Weigh?

One of the main characteristics of gasoline is octane number, but it has almost no effect on gasoline density and mass. At a temperature of about +15 °C, 1 liter of gasoline weighs on average approximately 0.70-0.78 kg, or 700-780 g. It is lighter than water, as shown in the table below.

Interesting Facts About Gasoline

• Unlike water, gasoline steadily expands as temperature rises. The temperature correction is 1 ml per 1 liter for each 1 degree increase or decrease in temperature. Accordingly, by filling with colder fuel, one can take away a larger amount of gasoline from the filling station.

• Gasoline ranks first in the international commodity turnover rating. Humanity uses more gasoline than tea and coffee, which share second place.

• Americans buy gasoline worth 1 billion dollars per day.

• Venezuela has the cheapest gasoline, only about 5 cents per liter, while the most expensive gasoline is in Norway and Turkey, according to Bloomberg.

• During Gaddafi’s rule in Libya, water was more expensive than gasoline, and fuel cost 14 cents.

• In the 19th century, gasoline was used as an antiseptic.

• A distant relative of gasoline, benzoic acid, was known to alchemists in the time of Nostradamus. It was extracted from a then-popular incense called “benzoin.”

• In the past, direct oil distillation yielded no more than 25% gasoline from the original volume. More modern refining methods make it possible to obtain up to 80% high-quality fuel from the original oil volume.