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Jeannie CH.com Sponsor Offline Live, Laugh, Love.... Posts: 2333 St Louis, Missouri Gender:	O2 tanks and summer heat Jun 9^th, 2011 at 5:09pm It's been in the upper 90's here. Is it okay to keep my E Tanks in the car when it's that hot? Thanks! Jeannie
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Brew CH.com Sponsor CH.com Alumnus Offline Posts: 14163	Re: O2 tanks and summer heat Reply #1 - Jun 9^th, 2011 at 5:43pm From personal experience only, I keep a D-tank in my car year-round. The last few days it's been in the upper 90's and my car is still intact.
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Re: O2 tanks and summer heat
Reply #2 - Jun 9^th, 2011 at 9:20pm

Gay-Lussac's law states that for an ideal gas

p ~ T

i.e. pressure is proportional to the absolute temperature.

Since oxygen is very close to an ideal gas, we can calculate the following example:

Starting at 'room temperature' of 20 C or 293 K absolute temperature (68 F in the old money) we must heat up the tank to 313 C or 586 K (1055 F on your weird scale) to double the pressure.
So, if you don't park your car in a forest fire, you shouldn't worry about an exploding tank.

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Jimi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't feed the moderators Posts: 4925 Madisonville, KY Gender:	Re: O2 tanks and summer heat Reply #3 - Jun 9^th, 2011 at 10:06pm Thanks Ueli.
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Jeannie CH.com Sponsor Offline Live, Laugh, Love.... Posts: 2333 St Louis, Missouri Gender:	Re: O2 tanks and summer heat Reply #4 - Jun 10^th, 2011 at 9:05am Thanks guys!
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