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Old January 30th 04, 01:00 AM
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"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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In article ,
(Andrew Sarangan) wrote:


Carb icing is a totally different fish. What's going on inside a
carburator is liquid gasoline is evaporating and turning into vapor.
There's a phase change. It takes a huge amount of energy to effect a
phase change.


A phase change is involved in the discussion at hand, but the collapse of
water's "hydrogen bridge" makes the energy involved in a gasoline phase
change look like nothing.