Oxygen in Gasoline/Petrol

I would not try this in any of my engines. My guess would be this: any oxygen disolved/released by the crystals would essentially dissipate into the air, not the gasoline. If you want more oxygen in your Internal Combustion Engine, it needs to be intorduced as a gas, such as NOS.

Oxy-clean is a sodium percarbonate (C₂H₆Na₄O₁₂) detergent and bleaching agent which produces hydrogen peroxide when dissolved in water. Seems to me all that other stuff would not be worth the oxygen that may be released.

I'm no Chemist by any means, so as a science experiment, it might be fun to take an old lawnmower motor and dump some in the tank and simply see what happens. Thats where the fun stuff really happens anyway.

take the blade off first

But be careful: some lawn mowers need the blade to regulate the speed of the engine. Without it, it revs up big time.....

If your car is well maintained, it already gets enough oxygen for stoichiometric burning. The only thing extra oxygen would do for a normal car (engines that require 3 or 4 gallons of petrol a minute are a different story!) is overheat it since you would not have the cooling nitrogen present.

Find something useful to do..........this is not a useful idea, sorry.

In my experience, adding chemicals which readily give up their oxygen to volatile hydrocarbons can be very entertaining as long as you're not sitting on top of or near the sealed container. You'd be lucky if all it did was ruin your engine.

Gordie

Oxygenated fuel means that they add alcohol to the fuel like C₂H₅OH (ethanol).

Aint no way I would subject an engine to Oxyclean.

Bill

so the excess oxygen only leads to overheating and the only sensible way to provide it in case of an engine that can use the excess is as a gas and not as an additive in the fuel??did i get that right?

feel free to ignore my next question since it is not productive by any standards.

Q:if one has a commonplace engine and can provide the required cooling externally would there be an gain by following this idea??also i think the original question was "crystals like oxy-clean".so are there any other products that might work as a fuel additive if the answer to my first question is something positive?