[AT] @$#@$#% Cub - red engine oil

[charliehill]

That could be right David.  It's just the first thing I thought of.  Not 
sure about the chemistry.  If you are correct the water and antifreeze would 
have to form a new compound and not just be a hydroscopic mixture I think.

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
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Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] @$#@$#% Cub - red engine oil


> Somewhere in the recesses of this tired brain (and in my college
> textbooks) is the concept of an azeotrope - a physical combination of
> two components that has properties quite different from the individual
> components and is quite hard to separate by simple distillation.
> Water and ethyl alcohol form such and I'm thinking water and ethylene
> glycol (the major component in many antifreeze formulations) would do
> the same.
>
> The various reference books that could answer are packed away but the
> answer should be somewhere on the web.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
> charliehill wrote:
>> Heat it until it's somewhere between 212 and maybe 230 degrees in an open
>> top container and the water will boil off and leave the antifreeze 
>> behind.
>> ( I THINK)
>
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