Re: Linit liquid useful?

hhc314@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Since the discussion has turned to diluted antifreeze, it came as a
near revelation to me last year, when I discovered the diluted
antifreeze actually has a lower temperature freezing point than 100%
ethylene glycol. This is why it needs to be diluted before being put
into your car, and for those that are familiar with the term, it has to
do with the eutectic, just as with solder or Wood's metal. Evidently a
50/50 mix of water an antifreeze comes close to the lowest termperature
eutectic, although this may not be the precise mix for the lowest
melting pont eutectic, although it comes close. Undiluted antifreeze
freezes at a considerable higher temperature than the mix.

I just learned this a year or so ago, and I suspect that I am not
alone. Read the instructions!

Harry C.




Yes it's counterintuitive, but true.

Leo
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