New episode for Myth-Busters "leaking still"

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New episode for Myth-Busters "leaking still"

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Was told to quit muddying someone elses posts so here goes!

Some one had posted that a leak in a still within a closed room/house, could fill the room with ETHANOL VAPOR and go KABOOM?

And i posted:

So if we have said leak and ethanol vapor was to escape into the air of a room, does that escaped vapor not condense back to a liquid at anything below its saturation point which is any temp below its boiling point of 173?

Iknow there are other alcohols in the wash that are being vaporized too, but they would condense below saturation point too in the event of a leak?

Iguess what my hard can't grasp is how this flamamble vapor can exist in a closed room with out condensing back to its liquid state unless the room was over 173 degrees? i know the liquid is bad and will burn!

And someone eluded to that alcohol vapors are heavier than air so they colect near the floor, but my question is how is there a vapor present when the room is much cooler than the boiling point of the liquid? I don't get it?
I get that in a steam sauna you saturate the air to the point that it almost rains.

Since i is from the show me state, this here is the plan, 8' x 8' x 8' OSB plywood box, 1 gallon of 50 proof tails in an old pressure cooker with the stopper removed, put it on a sterno burner, and put all this together in a the closed box in the middle of a field and see what happens. Kinda of a redneck Myth busters episode!

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