Carburetor fuel

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Carburetor fuel
other names

Petrol; Carburetor fuel; Regular gasoline; Premium gasoline; Gasoline, normal; Gasoline, great

Brief description Petrol for cars, see motor petrol
CAS number

8006-61-9

properties
Physical state liquid
safety instructions
GHS labeling of hazardous substances
02 - Highly / extremely flammable 07 - Warning 08 - Dangerous to health 09 - Dangerous for the environment

danger

H and P phrases H: 224-304-315-336-340-350-361-411
P: 201-210-280-301 + 310-403 + 233-501
As far as possible and customary, SI units are used. Unless otherwise noted, the data given apply to standard conditions .

Gasoline (abbreviated VK, Vk) is an addition to gasoline fuel used name for the fuel gas , in internal combustion engines is burned for energy conversion.

In the GDR , this designation was the only one used - for technical reasons due to the lack of cars with gasoline engines with direct injection. The term actually describes fuel with a low octane number , especially for engines with spark ignition , which mainly feed the fuel as a mixture with the combustion air through a carburetor . The term carburetor fuel was used even before the Second World War.

The abbreviation VK was in the GDR in connection with the octane number part of the type designation for fuels at the petrol stations, z. B. VK79 (until production was discontinued in the 1980s), VK88 ("Normal"), VK92 ("Extra") and VK95 ("Super").

Since the reunification in East Germany, the term carburetor fuel has been increasingly replaced by the more precise term petrol , since a carburetor is not necessarily part of a spark-ignition internal combustion engine. In the rest of the German-speaking world, the term had long faded into the background due to technical developments in cars.

literature

  • Institute for Contemporary History (Ed.): Offices, abbreviations, actions of the Nazi state: Handbook for the use of sources from the National Socialist era. Office titles, ranks and administrative divisions, abbreviations and non-military cover names. Walter de Gruyter, 1997.
  • TGL 6428.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Entry on petrol in the GESTIS substance database of the IFA , accessed on April 15, 2013(JavaScript required) .
  2. ↑ GDR octane rating. Retrieved April 14, 2013.