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Re: High voltage havoc from coil?
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:54:34 -0500
Well yes, actually...and it may not be dioxide at that, since I had titanium dioxide stuck in my head. Boy you guys are...
Re: Silicone in oil analysis
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Thu, 6 Jun 2013 12:36:04 -0500
---- John Lauterbach <john@jhl.mgacoxmail.com> wrote: > > Unless the lab is using very sophisticated instrumentation, it cannot > tell elemental silicon from silicon dioxide (sand...
Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil additives
Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:33:55 +1200
Sodium silicate is not "liquid glass". Glass is supercooled liquid silicon dioxide.
Re: Fire Extinguishers
Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:42:30 -0500
...This does not work on magnesium fires because magnesium atoms can suck the oxygen right out of the carbon dioxide molecule and keep burning...
Re: Window Trim
Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
Mon, 9 Jul 2001 08:03:32 -0500
...I don't think it's carbon dioxide. ______________ |[ ] [ ] [ ]\ | | | | ~~~ ~||-(())----(())-| Terry-- 74 Campmobile- (Clementine) 85 GL- (Delilah) 86 BMW 325 ES- (Eva)
Re: Eliminating mosquitoes while camping
Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:35:32 -0600
Entity Joel Walker spoke thus: > skeeters and ticks and such are guided to their > victims by being able to follow carbon dioxide emissions So...
Re: Rotten eggs!
Historical mailing list - William Dummitt
Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:40:17 -0500
Lionel- A rotten egg smell is caused by sulfur dioxide in the exhaust gases being reduced to hydrogen sulfide by the catalytic converter. Some...
Re: My Carbon Forehead Print (on my screen)
Historical mailing list - Mike S
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:23:14 -0500
...I know how to do that, > > let's make more carbon emissions because that is what trees breathe > in > > (carbon dioxide). Darn straight. We...
Re: Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid
Historical mailing list - miguel pacheco
Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:59:21 -0600
...Composed primarily of methane, the main products of the combustion of natural gas are carbon dioxide and water vapor, the same compounds we exhale...
Re: Carbon Monoxide (CO) & Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - OFF TOPIC
Historical mailing list - Robert A. Alexander
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 01:10:27 -0500
Marty - Nope, we definitely could use MORE CO2 in our atmosphere! My only suggestion to the eco-nuts who really think we need to...
Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil additives
Historical mailing list - Mike S
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:33:05 -0400
...Glass is supercooled liquid >silicon dioxide. "Sodium silicate is the common name for a compound sodium metasilicate, Na2SiO3, also known as water glass or...
Re: Carbon Monoxide (CO) & Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - OFF TOPIC
Historical mailing list - Robert A. Alexander
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 01:16:10 -0500
Marty - Oh, I almost forgot! CO gives no such warning!!! Don't fool yourself, it IS a silent killer. It even has a somewhat...
Re: Catalytic Heaters, Combustion Products Thereof
Historical mailing list - Marty Wallace
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 00:22:46 -0800
...As far as acidic products are concerned - the answer is well, sorta. :-) Carbon DIoxide (CO2) itself can dissolve in water to form some weakly...
Re: Carbon Monoxide?
Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:49:43 -0700
...Carbon DIoxide is more dense than air. Larry A. _________________________________________________________________ Learn how to choose, serve, and enjoy wine at Wine @ MSN. http://wine.msn.com/
Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil additives
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:51:33 -0400
...Glass is supercooled liquid >silicon dioxide. In the US sodium silicate solution is commonly called "water glass" -- no doubt that's where "liquid glass...
My Carbon Forehead Print (on my screen)
Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:45:28 -0500
...No matter how many technological advances are made, I am made to intake oxygen and expel carbon dioxide. I hate that this is now...
Re: Is it safe to saw through an o2 sensor ?
Historical mailing list - Keith Adams
Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:16:03 -0600
...It's made of zirconium dioxide, coated with a gas-permeable platinum layer. As zirconium dioxide is used in biological implants, I don't...
Re: Turn Your Car Into a Plug-In Hybrid
Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:06:29 -0600
...Composed > primarily of methane, the main products of the combustion of natural > gas are carbon dioxide and water vapor, the same compounds we exhale...
Re: My Carbon Forehead Print (on my screen)
Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:45:36 -0800
...No matter how many > technological advances are made, I am made to intake oxygen and expel > carbon dioxide. I hate that this is now...
Re: Window Trim
Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
Sun, 8 Jul 2001 22:15:57 -0700
...It was replaced by carbon dioxide. Mike Snow > As far as I know, WD-40 is a propane propelled silicone, that's it. > Silicone...
Re: Window Trim
Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
Mon, 9 Jul 2001 06:49:25 -0700
...4 > of a mile. > > I don't think it's carbon dioxide. > > ______________ > |[ ] [ ] [ ]\ > | | | | > ~~~ ~||-(())----(())-| > > Terry-- > 74 Campmobile- (Clementine) > 85 GL- (Delilah) > 86 BMW 325 ES- (Eva)
Cold Weather Camping ... heating, ... CORRECTION!
Historical mailing list - Ken Hartz
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:19:32 EST
...CO is a by-product of incomplete combustion, however, carbon dioxide (CO2) is also a by-product ... and CO2 is heavier than air (Pets...
Re: How dose water get in the muffler?
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:23:13 -0500
...up the engine? Hydrocarbons such as gasoline burn to produce carbon dioxide and water. When the system is cold the water condenses inside the...
Re: Window Trim
Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
Mon, 9 Jul 2001 06:33:15 -0700
...4 > of a mile. > > I don't think it's carbon dioxide. > > ______________ > |[ ] [ ] [ ]\ > | | | | > ~~~ ~||-(())----(())-| > > Terry-- > 74 Campmobile- (Clementine) > 85 GL- (Delilah) > 86 BMW 325 ES- (Eva)
Any chemists reading?
Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:52:25 -0800
...Catalytic heaters -- when properly operating -- don't generate carbon monoxide though they do consume oxygen and create carbon dioxide. "Crack your window," is the...
Re: Fire Suppression Solutions
Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
Wed, 4 Aug 2004 23:42:43 +1200
...We were told that for fires above floor/ground-level, carbon dioxide flows down and this often allows the fire to reignite.
Re: Carbon Minoxide?
Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:44:47 -0600
...Carbon DIoxide is more dense than air. Larry A.
Re: Bus Depot OXS Dilemma; Where Is the Truth?
Historical mailing list - Jeff Ensing
Sun, 27 Apr 2003 00:45:26 EDT
The veracity lies in the reference voltage, or the ability of the zirconium dioxide and the platinum to react with oxygen. The better the...
Re: Water tank
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Tue, 17 May 2011 10:23:02 -0700
...Could be that it is making the > batter a little "airy" due to the carbon dioxide. Do you also use > buttermilk, or some other...
Re: Rotten eggs!
Historical mailing list - Lionel Tun
Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:00:54 -0000
> A rotten egg smell is caused by sulfur dioxide in the exhaust gases being > reduced to hydrogen sulfide by the catalytic converter. Some gasoline...
Passed Smog Test!
Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
Mon, 5 Feb 96 12:03:01 PST
...ppm 350 ppm Pass Carbon Monoxide 1.9% 5% Pass Carbon Dioxide 10.5% Oxygen 4.9% Idle RPM 859 Here's what the...
Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil additives
Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:53:03 -0700
...Glass is supercooled liquid >silicon dioxide. "Sodium silicate is the common name for a compound sodium metasilicate, Na2SiO3, also known as water glass or...
Re: Vanagon ala Coca Cola
Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:03:56 +1200
...dissolving carbon dioxide into water produces a weak acid called carbonic acid. This is what is produced when raindrops fall through the atmosphere; they...
Re: Carbon Monoxide?
Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:28:27 -0800
...air; household > detectors are mounted near or on the ceiling. > Carbon DIoxide is more dense than air. > > Larry A. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Learn how to choose, serve...
E Check
Historical mailing list - John Patton
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 01:21:46 -0400
Hi Kate, Was the offending pollutant "CO" or "CO2"? We give off CO2 (carbon dioxide)when we exhale and trees breath it in. IF...
Re: Bus Depot OXS Dilemma; Where Is the Truth?
Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:54:05 -0500
Jeff Ensing wrote: > > The veracity lies in the reference voltage, or the ability of the zirconium > dioxide and the platinum to react with oxygen...
Re: Who makes the good air filter? (1.9l)
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Sat, 5 Sep 2015 21:49:21 -0400
...The K&N filters were letting fine dirt >pass right through!!! Silica is more than just dirt -- it's silicon dioxide, commonly known as...
Re: [Syncro] BUG repellant
Historical mailing list - ron 'coyote' lussier
Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:01:47 -0700
...by masking the odor of the human body (and the carbon dioxide given off.) It's perhaps not as nasty as DEET, but it...
Re: Vanagon fire fighting techniques
Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:28:53 -0600
...Now I believe that > most are another chemical that also decomposes to produce carbon dioxide > or a mixture of it and baking soda. > > I...
Re: Silicone in oil analysis
Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:27:53 -0400
Unless the lab is using very sophisticated instrumentation, it cannot tell elemental silicon from silicon dioxide (sand, for example) or silicon from other sources...
Re: Followup to last month's "Thar I was"
Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:49:17 -0800
...Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> > >> Catalytic heaters don't generate carbon monoxide though they do >> consume oxygen and create carbon dioxide. "Crack your...
RE:unknown engine thingie
Historical mailing list
Fri, 3 Nov 1995 13:49:35 PST
...Never mind that Geneva pumps large enough chunks of sulfer dioxide into the atmosphere to block the sun.
Re: Fuel injection diagnosis
Historical mailing list - WFryer
Thu, 30 Mar 2000 06:43:15 -0800
...But it stinks at idle of unburned fuel - not sulphur dioxide). Sort of like a propane-powered engine. Any advice?
Ideas for lifting water into the Westy water tank?
Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:25:43 -0700
...I have used chlorine dioxide (not the same as bleach) and UV (SteriPEN) for years to purify water. I don't know if there...
Re: Cut you spark plugs
Historical mailing list - David Beierl
Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:51:28 -0500
...time -- put in oxygen and hydrocarbon fuel (gasoline), get out carbon dioxide and water. Lots of it. One reason that hydrogen is an attractive...
Re: starbrite star-tron enzyme fuel treatment
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:00:14 -0500
...It also mentions "breaking up large fuel molecules." That's what the engine does, breaks them into carbon dioxide and water, with beneficial propulsive...
Re: gutted catalyctic
Historical mailing list - Michael Modl
Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:43:17 EDT
...I've also heard (on the evening news) that although cats do remove NOx, they replace with sulphur dioxide, which is/may be worse...
Re: Eliminating mosquitoes while camping
Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:32:19 -0500
...from what i have seen, skeeters and ticks and such are guided to their victims by being able to follow carbon dioxide emissions ... you...
Plat Cats for sale
Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:50:40 EST
...It vents the water vapor and carbon dioxide giving a clean dry heat without the condensation problems associated with non-vented catylitics. Comes with...
Re: EPA and Vanagon Emissions
Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:42:33 -0700
When they say "carbon" they really mean carbon dioxide, CO2. Hence, the weight of the "carbon" emissions exceeds the weight of the fuel, since...
Re: Heat inside the camper.. No
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Sat, 3 Jan 2015 10:09:33 -0800
...With complete combustion, you'll be getting water and carbon dioxide as the combustion products. As an aside, approximately 1.5 lbs of water...
Re: Vanagon ala Coca Cola
Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
Sun, 4 Feb 2001 15:19:21 -0800
...I never new >> about rust bolts and the others. > > dissolving carbon dioxide into water produces a weak acid called carbonic > acid. This is what...
Re: ANOTHER BUS BURNS
Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
Fri, 02 May 97 12:21:13 CDT
...i prefer carbon dioxide (over the chemical stuff ... the chemical stuff leaves a purple goop all over whatever you spray it on. and it...
Re: EPA and Vanagon Emissions
Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:00:33 -0500
...I would say that the carbon emission quantity is in reference to carbon dioxide rather than carbon, but I need to look into the...
Re: Catalytic Heaters.
Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:51:39 -0800
...In your camper, the propane stove does the same thing -- think of the flames you see as hot carbon dioxide and steam -- mostly steam...
Re: gov't sure fire way to destroy an engine Re: about oil additives
Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:20:38 -0500
...Glass is supercooled liquid >silicon dioxide. In the US sodium silicate solution is commonly called "water glass" -- no doubt that's where "liquid glass...
Re: Fire Suppression Solutions
Historical mailing list - don spence
Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:50:27 -0600
...We were told that for fires above floor/ground-level, > carbon dioxide flows down and this often allows the fire to reignite. >
Re: Safe way to clean Westy water tank?
Historical mailing list - Helen Fahy
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:38:25 -0400
...Most commercial users use gaseous chlorine dioxide, which is very inexpensive compared to liquid, but also pretty dangerous.
Platinum Cat heater
Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:40:24 EST
...It vents combustion by-products (carbon dioxide and water vapor) to the outside. This has an advantage over the non-vented types and interior...
Re: 12volt electric heaters
Historical mailing list
Wed, 8 Feb 1995 14:53:30 -0500
...Maybe a carbon dioxide sensor hooked to a warning beeper would work? Wolfram