[DeTomaso] Coolant Article

[Steve]

Good article - though I will admit I am a bit amazed that the author described de-ionized and distilled water as being stripped of their electrons.  Novel thought that.  I suspect the author is doing his best to report on what he heard, but distilled water has all its electrons.  The difference between DI and softened water is the softened water has sodium in place of any hardness that was in the water originally.  DI does not - hence the "loss" of electrons.

So, guess distilled is best - but, given that antifreeze is buffered to cope with the initial pH of the water, and, given that the pH, once buffered, is no longer an issue, I am still comfortable with DI water.  But, will switch to distilled in the future.  As for softened water - the article doesn't address the addition of sodium - and residual chlorides from the regeneration of the ion-exchange resins.  I'm more comfortable with distilled water.

Thank you for pointing out this article!

Stephen



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