I saw a mid-covid video back when gasoline prices were soaring of someone dumping gallons of gasoline in a giant plastic tub (to save money or something) but people in the comments claimed it would fall apart. I searched it up and gasoline does break down plastic but I can’t figure out why. Is it because they’re both carbon chains or something?
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Have you ever heard “like dissolves like”? That’s what’s happening here!
Your guess was basically correct: gasoline is a solvent and a hydrocarbon, and ordinary plastics also contain hydrocarbons which the gasoline will dissolve.
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