At 3:07 PM -0700 10/30/99, Hugh Turnbull wrote:
>The main products of burning hydrocarbons (gasoline, diesel fuel,
>propane etc.) are water vapour and carbon dioxide, neither of which is a
>hydrocarbon. There are other products (pollutants) released such as
>carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide, but these are not hydrocarbons
>either. Hydrocarbons are not released as a product from burning
>hydrocarbons.
>
that's true only if you have 100% burn efficiency, which you never do in an
ICE.
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright
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