Why do jets leave a white trail behind them.

Morgans wrote:


"Matt Whiting" wrote

If jet fuel is full of water, how do you get it to burn? When I took
chemistry, hydrocarbon fuels contained .... drum roll please ...
carbon and hydrogen. No water of any level of significance.

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Combustion leaves some hydrogen unclaimed, and the oxygen is really
happy to claim it, and when it combines two H's, and one O, you get water.

Weren't awake during that day of chemistry, were you, Matt? g

That was my point precisely. The water isn't IN the fuel. It is formed
by the fuel and the oxygen in the air via the combustion process. That
isn't at all the same as saying that the water is IN the fuel.


Matt