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Subject:Re: vanagon Digest - 20 Mar 2006 (#2006-243)
From:Mike Collum
Date:Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:40:13 -0500

Rejects is a word similar to reflects ... meaning it didn't absorb the
heat in the first place.

Don't you mean "Gives off" as in emits?  If so, then it can only do that
if it gets hot in the first place.

Mike

vze3sngp wrote:
> Black also REJECTs more heat, than white; it's a two way street.
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> How many pot bellied stoves have you seen painted white?
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> Keith Walker
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>> Date:    Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:56:03 EST
>> From:    JordanVw@AOL.COM
>> Subject: white vs black tanks Re: propane tank R&R, comments needed...
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>> In a message dated 3/20/06 2:36:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> collum@verizon.net writes:
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>>> The only thing wrong with painting them black is that black absorbs heat
>>> more than white ... and gas expands with heat.  That's why they were
>>> light colored to begin with.
>>>
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>> i see your point...  but they are mounted under than van...where the sun
>> doesnt shine...  :<)
>>
>> chris
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