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Re:Gas Stoves Emit Benzene and Increases Indoor Air Pollution by EA-3167 on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:22PM (#36381637)
Generally speaking the sort of flames we encounter in daily life, including from a gas stove, are not hot enough to form a plasma.
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Re:Gas Stoves Emit Benzene and Increases Indoor Air Pollution by jleyank on Sunday June 18, 2023 @12:25PM (#36381671)
I would think it has to be an atypical flame to build up molecules vs burn them to co2 and water. Unless there’s polycyclic aromatics being broken up. LP gas has to do some interesting chemistry to make benzene from raw carbon and hydrogen. So perhaps some ionization is needed to catalyze or enable these reactions.
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