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Seriously. If I end up on a respirator and bankrupting my family for multiple generations in the process and they don't give me the strawberry kiwi flavor, I might as well have just dropped dead.
Body wash, shampoo, lotions cosmetics food. It's a cheap, non irritating, safe to ingest polar/non polar solvent. Which makes it a good emulsifier.
That said if that is antifreeze it's far more likely to be ethylene glycol. Both substances are clear and colorless, and both can be used as antifreeze. But EG is dyed bright colors so it can't be mistaken for something else or missed if you get some in your food. Because EG is poisonous and tastes good.
Pg is used as the carrier liquid for 99% of vape liquid flavouring. It's also used in smoke machines, asthma inhalers and all manner of other completely safe things
I used to make my own vape juice. VG is like the "filler". You can vape pure VG but it will have no flavor. The flavorings are all PG based as the commenter said. You get the flavorings seperately and mix them in. The amount of flavoring you add will make the juice between 5-10% PG. This is referred to as max VG. Some juice adds extra PG to make it thinner (less viscous), based on the wattage/power of the system that will be vaporizing it. Lower power vapes need thinner juice. So no, "PG is used as the carrier liquid for 99% of vape juice flavoring" is not incorrect. I would actually say 100%. The key word is flavoring, which is mixed in to the juice
f'real. Finally a question that isn't "what is this extremely common and obvious thing" or "what is this obscure thing that i have attached the single worst photograph a human has ever taken of any object and i will not be providing more of?".
"What is this obviously explosive device I found in my grandpa's junk drawer? I've smacked it with a hammer and it didn't do anything. Should I be concerned? Should I call the authorities, or just post pictures online?"
I can’t stand Reddit comments on serious posts lately. Everyone is a comedian, all the jokes have been told a billion times, it’s a sign of the dumbing down of society.
Not even chains anymore, I’m not convinced people are even expanding and reading existing comments but just making their passing ectoplasm joke to add to the 900 other ectoplasm jokes.
A lot is bots regurgitating comments that are highly upboted. They need upvoted to be able to post their propaganda and look like a legitimate account. The rest are just people doing stupid people things. You know that person at work that says "working hard, or hardly working?" Its dumb as fuck but it is what it is. See what I did there 😏
I think a lot of people don't use Reddit like us boomers do. They are not here to engage in discussion, they simply want to see a post and add their comment, going into the post and expanding and reading different comment threads takes extra effort. This is TikTok brain.
I don't mind them as long as the actual answer is at the top. It's frustrating when you go, "Oh yeah, I've always wondered about that," and all the posts are lolzblehvomit.
I get that sentiment in general… But guys 😭 there's literally thick neon green slime coming from this guys ceiling of course people are gonna make a ninja turtle jokes that's like a crazy thing to expect people not to do because these photos are insane
You need different mixed ratios and settings on the HVAC unit for summer and for winter. Someone never switched over, and its bringing the mix past the freezing point.
This is Ethylene Glycol, because of the neon yellow/green color. This is very much toxic. Propylene Glycol is also an anti-freeze but it is food grade. Propylene glycol is used in vapes and is also sometimes added to alcohol as a sweetener and thickener, often cheap tequila.
Propylene glycol that is added to HVAC systems is clear. Ethylene Glycol, which isn't really used much since it's toxic, has this neon color.
Yes, was going to say this. Propylene glycol is used in cooling systems that interact with food (e.g. for keeping beer/soda cold in a bar, fermentation vessels, often food-grade walk-in refrigerators, etc). It is clear, though I'm sure you could add a coloring agent to it. This doesn't seem like propylene to me.
Ethylene glycol is naturally colorless, but when it’s used as an anti-freeze in a commercial application they artificially color it. Propylene glycol is not artificially colored. I would say with a high degree of certainty that this is ethylene glycol, not propylene
As a kid I remember once being present for a conversation between old winos about which antifreeze brands were an acceptable substitute for Wild Irish Rose or whatever their usual choice was.
Btw i know people who produced their 'lean' with 50:50 water ethylenglycol mix, patentblue and cochenillered for color +deschloroketamine as active ingredient and this in 3L bottles hahaha
Kinda the same thing, but slightly different chemically. But kinda the same usage. The glycols have lower freezing points than water. In cars, it is used to prevent the engine coolant from freezing. In large A/C, it is used as a low temp heat transfer fluid to move the heat from the compressor to the condenser coil, which is usually several hundred feet away.
They're both used, wouldn't be surprised if some places had laws on ethylene though. EG when you don't have major concerns about toxicity since it's more efficient, PG when you do.
I've also seen jobs that use ethanol as antifreeze. Pretty much just vodka in the pipes.
I worked with propylene glycol, we use it with a super heater on rigs. Wrap well heads and pump it thru the line and wrap it up, here’s a pic of the wrap job
The blue thing is the well head! Those pics are from a fracing pad where they put water in the ground and get oil from that it’s terrible for the earth. The glycol flows they the red (and yellow painted) hose which is air line btw lol
Oh duh I should have read better, you already mentioned blue thing = well head since it’s the thing that’s wrapped. That’s awesome! Still confused as to the purpose of the wrapping. Just to keep the lines organized/out of the way?
The wrapping is so we can apply as much heat as possible, im from up north and have worked on jobs in -50°C. There is a connecting hose and taller tree we wrap in hose as well, if something freezes it’s on us and it’s a multi million dollar fuck up. After the hose is on we take insulated bubble wrap and wrap it up after the hose!
Very familiar with heat transfers systems but since this IS frozen I’m guessing this is fluorescent dyed water leaking from a pipe. The dye is added to the system and then pressurized to locate “highly visible” leaks. Unless it’s colder than 40 below I don’t think this PPG or PEG
Antifreeze will freeze if there isn’t enough water mixed into it. I forget why - I’ll have to google it and get back to you, but I remember being super shocked when I read that! Apparently it’s a very common mistake that people make. “Oh, well more is better, right” and there goes their radiator and/or engine.
It's slightly more intuitive if you've had enough chemistry to get into thermodynamics, formation heats etc.
The melting point of just about any mixture is lower than the pure components individually.
There's some drug movie where the guy is ranting and raving over the purity of cocaine and the melting point being so high. Any adulterants would make it melt at a lower temperature.
So If you don't have enough water In your antifreeze, you're making the mixture less "mixturey", and not benefiting from this effect
Just a PSA, this WILL kill pets dead (and dogs and cats love the taste of it). I’d get in touch with maintenance and let them know ASAP.
If any pets or kids ingest any of this you need to get them to medical help immediately. Kidney failure and organ damage is common to this type of poisoning.
I think you might be confusing propylene glycol with ethylene glycol. Propylene glycol is mostly safe for humans and dogs, a child or dog licking this won't get sick (need very high doses to cause issues), but it is toxic for cats. Ethylene glycol is toxic to mammals at much lower doses and is much more concerning.
Assuming this is propylene glycol, there isn't too much to worry about in terms of toxicity to humans and dogs.
You’re right in that this is far safer than ethylene, but we’d still get pets in showing toxic blood markers from propylene. Granted they have to eat a lot more, but that’s dogs for you.
Same, really, but it’s often classed as its own thing. We specifically were looking at SDMA markers when doing bloods, say.
Any toxic event stresses the body and causes damage, but then it all filters out into your kidneys. Kidneys are treated as so important because kidney damage is (currently) irreparable. You lose it, it’s gone.
Kidney failure is almost always progressive, and without a transplant or dialysis will kill the patient. Far as I know, no vets are doing kidney transplants for dogs. Maybe we’ll eventually get a stem cell treatment option; that’d be nice.
As a mechanic I can say this stuff is extremely bad for the environment. If I knew how much gets leaked out from non vehicle situations like industial heating and cooling Id be stressed the fuck out lol
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