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Re: Cleaning Shop Rags

To: shk <shk@qnet.com>
Subject: Re: Cleaning Shop Rags
From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
Date: 30 Jul 1998 06:34:47 +0000
In article <35B68DA3.7455@qnet.com>, shk <shk@qnet.com> wrote:
> I am not a chemist (my degree is in Physics) but I do know that the
> rate at which something evaporates is directly related to the
> temperature it will reach while evaporating.  ie:  The faster that
> something evaporates the hotter it will get.  If the solvent that is
> evaporating reaches the kindling point of your rag then you will
> probably have combustion.

I am pretty sure I remember that evaporation makes things cooler.
Otherwise we would not sweat.
-- 
Shields.

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