Rain water & Ethylene Glycol?

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Re: Rain water & Ethylene Glycol?

Postby Black_Penguin » Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:17 pm

Glycol has has a higher boil point and a lower freeze point but absorbs more heat than normal water ie will boil faster. This explains it quite well
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Re: Rain water & Ethylene Glycol?

Postby manga_blue » Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:12 pm

Tedsmx5 wrote:I use Nulon Ultra Cool Pre-Mix it contains no Glycol.

Thanks for that. Didn't know about that one.
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