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Reply #3: Depends on how long it was in there - gasoline is a good solvent. [View All]

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Lance_Boyle

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Fri Jul-30-10 10:12 AM
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3. Depends on how long it was in there - gasoline is a good solvent.

But I'm not so sure a McDonalds burger patty is soluble in anything, including stomach acid.

Remember the myth of the 10-year-old burger? http://bestofmotherearth.com/2008/09/24/1996-mcdonalds-hamburger.html

I suppose there is a slim chance she was driving a diesel-fueled vehicle and that the reporter mistakenly referred to its fuel tank as a "gas tank." Diesel is not a solvent but a lubricant, and some diesel cars and trucks have wide filler necks to accommodate the fat nozzles on truck stop pumps - those could fit a decent sized chunk of burger.

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