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Originally Posted by SilberUrS6

Not true.

I have personally performed this experiment in a real laboratory. Any liquid water addition to gasoline removes alcohol from gas. This is for any mix below E60 (60% ethanol/40% gasoline) At E60 and above, the amount of water it takes to get water saturation in the hydrocarbon phase is pretty small, until you start getting to E90 and above. It's not a straight-line curve, either.

For blends of E10 (or near it), any liquid water that gets into the tank will absorb ethanol out of the gasoline such that you get roughly a 30% ethanol/70% water mix, and then everything is in equilibrium.

Trace amounts of water can be soluable in a gas/ethanol mix near E10. But once you get liquid water in the system, all bets are off.

In my experiment, I was able to get about 2 parts per ten thousand of liquid water to go into solution, but that was with *vigorous* mixing over the course of 10 minutes. After that amount went in, there was no amount of mixing that would do anything.

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