Tumbleweed Whenever you think of the Wild West of America, you think of cowboy movies and tumbleweed, perpetually tumbling around a desolate landscape. According to the American movies, tumbleweed is as American as apple pie.
3 Answers. , I am a serious student of all questions relating to the environment. Gasoline can be ignited by even a tiny spark at temperatures as low as fifty below zero, but it merely evaporates at temperatures up to about four hundred seventy five to five hundred F. At that temperature, it ignites spontaneously.
That is NOT what you get in a standard BIC lighter, which has a rather anemic fuel/air mix. Though the exact temperature will depend on many variables, pressure, temp, type of lighter, quality of fuel, etc., we know the auto-ignition temperature of butane is 288 Â°C. This is the temperature at which butane will ignite itself with no outside ignition source (fire, spark, etc.).