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How Does A Gas Nozzle Know When To Shut Off?

How Does A Gas Nozzle Know When To Shut Off?

It’s almost second nature, we might not even recognize that the gasoline nozzle that you used to fill up your car managed to snap off at just the right time.

This occurrence has happened so many times in our lives that we might not even realize it’s going on, but the truth is there’s a whole complex backstory to how such a phenomenon works.

Thanks to a scientific process known as the “Venturi Effect,” the nozzle is able to go through a sequence of events that allows it to top us off without spilling a drop of gas!

Check out the video below that explains how it all works! We’re going to have to be honest here. We thought it would be simple, but we might be even more confused now that we know how the process really goes down.

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