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Mike Sloane
mikesloane at verizon.net
Fri Dec 7 10:10:45 PST 2007
Actually, Larry, you are left with more than "just nitrogen" - while
nitrogen is most of what's left, there is also carbon dioxide, argon,
neon, helium, methane, and krypton, and maybe some other stuff I have
forgotten.
Mike
Larry D Goss wrote:
> Question of the day -- does carburetor icing occur on fuel injected engines?
> :-)
>
> The fact that temperature changes with rapid changes in pressure is
> fundamental to the manufacture of liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen, and the
> operation of most refrigeration and air-conditioning systems. When we lived
> in the Kanawha valley of West Virginia, there was a liquid oxygen plant
> located three or four miles from where we lived. The big compressors were
> always running when we drove by in the morning. You could hear them nearly
> a mile away. The first product to fall out of air (after the particulates)
> is water. Oxygen comes after that, and then you're left with just nitrogen.
>
> Larry
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