DEF in Ram
Would anyone know right off, what year the DEF Fluid was started in the diesel Ram's...was it 2011?
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Passin Thru wrote:
I drove truck for 4 milion miles. What's a chassis cab? I know what a class 8 is and a cabover or conventional. I actually know what it is, a light truck. However you put it, DEF is just as nasty as diesel soot.
DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) is a 32.5% solution of Urea (NH2)2CO. When the urea solution is injected into the hot exhaust gas stream the water evaporates. The urea thermally decomposes to form ammonia and isocyanic acid: It hen goes into a humans lungs and crystalizes and never leaves.GOODBYE ALL!
Bull. Isocyanic acid at room temperature is a liquid. At the temperature of the human body it's a gas. If any gets into your lungs, it is immediately exhed as it is not soluble in water. Look up the thermal decomposition I. The presence of NOx and you'll see what products are formed (mainly ammonia and sone larger complexes; very, very little cyanic acid in a properly operating system). Once you do, look up the safety data sheets for these products. Yes, some are toxic, but look at the health section, compare the concentrations produced by a vehicle (hard to find but easily calculated from DEF usage), consider the dilution in the atmosphere and how mch you could possibly inhale, and you'll see that the amount you could injest is so infitessimally small that it's almost not possible to calculate. I've been a chemist for nearly 40 years and I hate it when people promote totally incorrect information as scare facts. Please verify facts before distributing fertilizer.
