Date:         Mon, 6 Dec 1999 06:07:14 -0800
Reply-To:     Dana Morphew <kdm@WHIDBEY.COM>
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From:         Dana Morphew <kdm@WHIDBEY.COM>
Organization: Dana's Mobile Carpet Steam
Subject:      Re: CHEAP Silicate/Phosphate free anti-freeze
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Is it even necessary to have a waterpump lubricant in antifreeze?  If
so, which chemicals or minerals are used?  The Prestone ExtraLife or
ExtendedLife 5/150 container leaves many of their ingredients hidden
under the "proprietary" cloak.  Thank you.
-Dana-

John Rodgers wrote:
>
> Silicon -  a basic element - gray in pure form, usually derived for industry
> from the smelting of quartz and quartzite. Or in other terms, Silicon
> Oxides.   Used in  hooter augmentation, oiless lubrication, and computer
> chip constrruction.
>
> East of Montgomery, Alabama there was a silicon producing plant. Electric
> furnaces were were layered with alternating coke and quartz/quartzite
> gravel, which is very plentiful in the region. The furnaces melted the
> rocks, and the carbon in the coke combined with the oxygen atoms in the
> quartz/quartzite and vented from the furnace as carbon dioxide, while the
> pure silicon poured from the bottom of the furnace into molds to form
> ingots.
>
> The ingots were shipped to the industrial plants of the east and midwest and
> made into various silicon based lubricants, silicon steel, silicon aluminum,
> cosmetics, medical appliances, etc.
>
> Probably more than anyone wants to know about it but there it is.
>
> John Rodgers
> "88GL Driver
>
> Per Lindgren wrote:
>
> > Gerald Masar wrote:
> >
> > > You are talking about two completely different substances here:
> > >         Silicon as in silicates, Silicon Valley and computer chips and
> > >         Silicone as in lubricants and breast implants.
> >
> > So, what's the difference between chips and hooters?
> >
> > PerL
> > 87 Syncro 112i