[s-cars] Toluene

[Robert Myers]

At 12:00 PM 11/3/2002 -0700, Chad Clark wrote:

>While were on topic and you've piqued my interest, anyone know of any
>adverse effects of mixing toluene with ethanol? Here in CO, on the front
>range at least, during the winter months, they've mandated that we run 10%
>ethanol blend in all grades of gasoline in an effort to burn cleaner/reduce
>emissions. Is this crap byproduct going to make any difference in the mixing
>percentages of toluene? Seems that toluene may not be for us poor folk in CO
>due possibly to elevation issues, not supposed to use it in cold temps, now
>ethanol concerns? Thanks,

Toluene will freeze solid at low temperatures.  (I forget the exact
freezing temperature off-hand, however.  IIRC, it's not far from the
freezing point of water.)   That is for _pure_  toluene.  Toluene dissolved
in gasoline should stay dissolved quite nicely until you are parked
overnight in southernmost Antarctica.  :-)

I haven't done the experiment but toluene/gasoline/ethanol mixtures should
be no worse than just gasoline/ethanol mixtures.  Your calculations should
remain about the same.


>Chad Clark
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