Pink stuff froze

paddykernahan wrote:
Bought two types last winter.
Glycol and Glycol/alcohol mix.
The glycol/alcohol mix was cheaper.
Both unused portions slushed up at the same temperature.

Either should work, how about the taste test??:p

Jerry

Bought two types last winter.
Glycol and Glycol/alcohol mix.
The glycol/alcohol mix was cheaper.
Both unused portions slushed up at the same temperature.

weasel4 wrote:
It's working fine.

X2

It's working fine.

minnow wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:


The RV forum. Complicating the uncomplicated and promoting fear mongering since 1823...

Now that's funny (and very true).

X2

Ralph Cramden wrote:


The RV forum. Complicating the uncomplicated and promoting fear mongering since 1823...

Now that's funny (and very true).

Because of the altitude of the Antarctic ice cap, it would stand to reason it wouldn't melt nearly as quickly as the surrounding ice in the surrounding sea and the Arctic ice. The ice higher in the elevation sublimes, doesn't melt.
(Sublime means to turn from solid to gas without transitioning to water. Ice regularly sublimes, evaporates, without melting and running off.)

Ski Pro 3 wrote:
Water expands when it freezes. Ice bergs are frozen water, displacing water. When it melts, it occupies the same volume it displaced because melted, it takes up less volume than when it was frozen and sticking up out of the water. This is why the melting of polar ice caps causing ocean levels to rise is just BS.

well, no it is NOT BS, since antartic ice cap is not sitting in water but on a continent. Now add that melted ice to the ocean and yes, water level would rise. BTW the ice volume on the antartic continent is huge. ice height is as much as 10,000ft average ice height is 2.5km or over 5,000ft if it all melted ocean level would rise about 40ft.

Artic ice is floating in the ocean and melting doesn't change sea hight. not the issue the antartic ice poses.

ktmrfs wrote:
big urban myth!!!! ( and yes, many science teachers passed on this misinformation to classes!!)

water is NOT the only material that expands when it freezes. there are mutiple elements that expand when the solidify, let alone other compounds. Yes, most shrink, but not ALL.

the elements silicon, gallium, germanium, antimony, bismuth, plutonium expand as a solid vs liquid.

Bobbo wrote:
OK, don't flush out your water lines with silicon, bismuth, gallium or antimony. There, he is covered. :B

OK, add germanium and plutonium to that list. Don't flush out your water lines with germanium or plutonium either. :S

Ski Pro 3 wrote:
Water expands when it freezes. Ice bergs are frozen water, displacing water. When it melts, it occupies the same volume it displaced because melted, it takes up less volume than when it was frozen and sticking up out of the water. This is why the melting of polar ice caps causing ocean levels to rise is just BS.

You do understand that (much of) the antarctic ice cap isn't floating on the ocean, correct?