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  2. Ethylene glycol poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Antifreeze products for automotive use containing propylene glycol in place of ethylene glycol are available, and are generally considered safer to use, as it possesses an unpleasant taste in contrast to the perceived "sweet" taste of toxic ethylene glycol-based coolants, and produces only lactic acid in an animal's body, as their muscles do ...

  3. Antifreeze - Wikipedia

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    An antifreeze mixture is used to achieve freezing-point depression for cold environments. Common antifreezes also increase the boiling point of the liquid, allowing higher coolant temperature. [1] However, all common antifreeze additives also have lower heat capacities than water, and do reduce water's ability to act as a coolant when added to ...

  4. Ethylene glycol - Wikipedia

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    Because of the depressed freezing temperatures, ethylene glycol is used as a de-icing fluid for windshields and aircraft, as an antifreeze in automobile engines, and as a component of vitrification (anticrystallization) mixtures for low-temperature preservation of biological tissues and organs.

  5. Georgia father sentenced to 50 years for poisoning his ... - AOL

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    A Georgia father was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Thursday for using antifreeze mixed in breastmilk to poison his 18-day-old daughter four years ago.. Curtis Jack was arrested on Oct. 16 ...

  6. Freezing-point depression - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenon of freezing-point depression has many practical uses. The radiator fluid in an automobile is a mixture of water and ethylene glycol. The freezing-point depression prevents radiators from freezing in winter. Road salting takes advantage of this effect to lower the freezing point of the ice it is placed on.

  7. Antifreeze protein - Wikipedia

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    Freeze avoidant: These species are able to prevent their body fluids from freezing altogether. Generally, the AFP function may be overcome at extremely cold temperatures, leading to rapid ice growth and death. Freeze tolerant: These species are able to survive body fluid freezing. Some freeze tolerant species are thought to use AFPs as ...

  8. Why sudden loud booms sometimes occur when it's very ... - AOL

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    "Frost quakes happen when saturated ground rapidly freezes after a period of mild or above-freezing temperatures," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Adam Douty explained. "Since water expands when ...

  9. Cryoprotectant - Wikipedia

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    A cryoprotectant is a substance used to protect biological tissue from freezing damage (i.e. that due to ice formation). Arctic and Antarctic insects, fish and amphibians create cryoprotectants (antifreeze compounds and antifreeze proteins) in their bodies to minimize freezing damage during cold winter periods. Cryoprotectants are also used to ...