Is gasoline an acid or a base?

Answer 1

Neither an acid nor a base. Gasoline is a mixture of hydrocarbons, these compounds have no acidic properties since they are more or less long chains of carbon and hydrogen bonded by covalent bonds.

Answer 2

Gasoline is neither. Gas is a mixture of several low melting point alkane compounds including hexane, septane, octane (the primary compound). Many other compounds and trace elements are also found in gas, including to a very limited extent some organic acids from the decomposed organic material (dinos and plants), but in the most accurate terms the only measureable acid within gas is ethanol, which like all alcohols is a very weak acid.

Answer 3

Gasoline is not a base because of the C-H bond being nonpolar. Most hexanes are considered to be non-acidic hydrogens category.

Answer 4

Gasoline, also called petrol, is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting primarily of hydrocarbons and enhanced with benzenes to increase octane ratings, used as fuel in internal combustion engines.

Most Commonwealth countries, with the exception of Canada, use the term "petrol" (abbreviated from petroleum spirit). The term "gasoline" is commonly used in North America where it is commonly shortened in colloquial usage to "gas." This should be distinguished in usage from genuinely gaseous fuels used in internal combustion engines such as liquified petroleum gas. The term mogas, short for motor gasoline distinguished automobile fuel from aviation gasoline, or avgas. The word "gasoline" can also be used in British English to refer to a different petroleum derivative historically used in lamps, however this use is now uncommon.[1] Most American Spanish dialects use the word gasolina, derived from the North American usage.

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Answer 5

gasoline is neither an acid or a base.

Answer 6

Because gasoline is a hydrocarbon, it has no pH, but some carboxylic acids or phosphates in it can cause acidity when extracted with water.