B
-- because of, by virtue of the very combustion process of the diesel engine, because diesel oil is, uh, is not very volatile.
A
Uh-huh.
B
You know, where gasoline, if you leave a little pail of gasoline out before long it's gone.
A
Yeah.
B
Diesel is going to be around, because it doesn't evaporate easily, and it's got, well, you know, its latent heat is high, but it's slow burning at, at, uh, normal pressures. That's why your diesel engines have such high compression ratios --
A
Oh, I see.