No.. I meant catalyst...as in, "an agent that provokes or speeds change or action". http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/netdict?catalyst Perhaps they use a different brand of English on the other side of the equator... In common use there is no limitation that catalyst need only be used to describe an agent in chemical reactions. Have you ever heard someone suggest that an event was catalyst for change in someone's life? Regardless John is correct Red Line's Water Wetter is a surfactant and I maintain as such it is also a catalyst for the transfer of heat. Finally, there are plenty of independent laboratory results available confirming Red Line's Water Wetter's technical performance. I trust anyone on this list can use google to find such information, but since a few appear unable to use a dictionary maybe my assumption is in error. Yes I got up on the wrong side of the bed today, but you all take yourselves to seriously. It's vanagon, not a science experiment in nuclear fusion. -Jon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [VANAGON] Water Wetter
> >The product has been around a long time for whatever that's worth... more > >than 10 years... I used to know a bunch of amateur racers (SCCA) who swore > >by the stuff, > > Lots of folk will swear by just about anything, so I wouldn't take > that as a recommendation. Has it been tested under INDEPENDENT > laboratory conditions? Such "swearing by" is the reason that English > cars (those designed in England) survived so much longer than they > deserved to. > > >however IIRC it doesn't do anything for freeze protection, > >only reduces engine temps by being a catalyst for heat exchange. > > Catalysts initiate chemical reactions, without themselves being in > any way involved in the reaction. They don't affect heat-transfer, > which is not a chemical but a physival process (of course chemical > reactions are also physical, but...). > > I think this stuff will be yet another brand of oel de serpente. > -- > Andrew Grebneff > Dunedin > New Zealand > Fossil preparator > <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> > Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut > > HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE > > DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR |
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