Yes, Ethylene glycol is your normal green antifreeze for cars. Propylene glycol is a non-toxic antifreeze used in solar thermal systems and some of the new car antifreeze formulations. It's usually pink when I've seen it, although I'm not sure if this is natural color or dye. Why are you looking for ethylene glycol?
On 10/19/05, Brian Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very good thanks Ken > Now that you jog my memory I recall buying methanol at the parts store > last week and right next to the Heet brand de-icer I saw isopropyl > alcohol. > next, I need to look in the archives for ethylene glycol as I > remember talk of it here last month. At the time I was interested in > something else so I skimmed it with little absorption on mind part. > Anyway isn't glycol a anti-freeze? I am ready to take Chemistry 101 at > the local university. > Brian Rodgers > > On 10/19/05, Ken Provost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 19, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Zeke Yewdall wrote: > > > > > Methyl Ethyl Ketone is used as the hardening agent in > > > fiberglass work. NASTY stuff. Ketones aren't technically > > > alcohols anyway, if I remember my organic chemistry right. > > > > > > > > > That's right, but the hardener is methyl ethyl ketone > > peroxide -- a very different thing from simple MEK. > > MEK is a great solvent -- works and smells very > > much like its close relative acetone, but has a higher > > boiling point and therefore makes less fumes. > > Commonly used as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol. > > > > Small quantities of pure isopropanol are avail from > > auto parts stores as gasoline dryer. Be sure you > > get the one that says "CONTAINS NO METHANOL". > > Otherwise, it's pure methanol... > > > > -K > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
