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  2. Antifreeze - Wikipedia

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    (The new caps and recovery bottles were introduced at the same time as DEX-COOL). This exposes hot engine components to air and vapors, causing corrosion and contamination of the coolant with iron oxide particles, which in turn can aggravate the pressure cap problem as contamination holds the caps open permanently.

  3. Should I turn off water if pipes are frozen? How to keep ...

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    What to do when water pipes freeze. Here are tips from The Red Cross. If you turn on a faucet and only a trickle comes out, suspect a frozen pipe. Likely places for frozen pipes include against ...

  4. Freezing-point depression - Wikipedia

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    Workers spreading salt from a salt truck for deicing the road Freezing point depression is responsible for keeping ice cream soft below 0°C. [1]Freezing-point depression is a drop in the maximum temperature at which a substance freezes, caused when a smaller amount of another, non-volatile substance is added.

  5. Cold trap - Wikipedia

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    Cold traps (C in the figure) usually consist of two parts: The bottom is a large, thick round tube with ground-glass joints (B in the figure), and the second is a cap (A in the figure), also with ground-glass connections. The length of the tube is usually selected so that, when assembled, the total reached is about half the length of the tube.

  6. This is what happens when you throw a water bottle into ... - AOL

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    Pieces of metal get caught in the rapidly expanding air, causing the dangerous showers of fire. ... (up to 550 degrees Celsius) into a body of water will also cause an ... who said the opening ...

  7. Freezing - Wikipedia

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    The melting point of water at 1 atmosphere of pressure is very close to 0 °C (32 °F; 273 K), and in the presence of nucleating substances the freezing point of water is close to the melting point, but in the absence of nucleators water can supercool to −40 °C (−40 °F; 233 K) before freezing. [4] [5] Under high pressure (2,000 ...

  8. Memphis residents endure day 4 of water problems as freezing ...

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    The city’s water company issued a boil water notice on Friday to the more than 600,000 people it serves because low pressure in the system and breaks in water mains could allow harmful bacteria ...

  9. Uncontrolled decompression - Wikipedia

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    In this test chamber, air pressure drops suddenly to that of the atmosphere at 60,000 ft (18,000 m). Air humidity immediately condenses into fog, which within seconds evaporates back into gas. The term uncontrolled decompression here refers to the unplanned depressurisation of vessels that are occupied by people; for example, a pressurised ...