Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Nezamerzayka: cheap does not mean bad

Along with the season snowplows and began selling season nezamerzayki. On the road 5-liter bottles offered at $ 100, and stores this fluid is several times more expensive. We found it safe to take nezamerzayku their hands and how it affects our health. Antifreeze liquid - is alcohol mixed with water, often manufacturers add it to aromatic fragrance to kill odor. Nezamerzayku can be made from ethyl, methyl and isopropyl. Ethyl alcohol is considered to be drinking, so his car turns into a liquid alcohol product, which requires the use excise taxes. Methyl alcohol is absolutely harmless, if they breathe, but his drink may have been fatal. The rest of his ice-cleaning properties and is absolutely acceptable for use in the car. Isopropyl - the most expensive alcohol, he has a strong, even slightly pungent odor, it has a higher boiling point, he slowly faded out of the cabin, and on the glass may leave traces of oil. However, despite all these disadvantages, it is of isopropyl in our country legally allowed to do non-freezing liquid. For example, in countries with similar temperatures in winter, like Scandinavia and Canada, methyl nezamerzayki resolved. But the Russian government cares about the health of alcoholics, which could poison nezamerzaykoy. However, the representative of the Office of Information and Public Relations Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow region Andrey Firsov said that statistics on such cases are not kept, so to justify this decision by the Government nothing. He also said that the police are trying to deal with the sellers of illegal non-freezing liquid, but due to lack of legislation on this issue are working very inefficiently. "To bring to justice those sellers, we have to find a manufacturer of fluid, get away technical details about the production, send them to the test, and only then will decide whether to initiate a case", - said Andrey Firsov. And the sellers themselves can be involved only for the illegal trade. In the suburbs a lot of underground "factories" for production nezamerzayki. Arrange such a workshop is very simple and cheap: bought alcohol (respectively, the cheapest), plastic containers, water (if there is no "khalyavnykh" Crane) and labels. Even if such proceeding be closed, then it is easy to open a similar 100 meters from ruin. Cost of "legal" nezamerzayki that does not lose its properties up to 20 degrees below zero, is about 250-300 rubles. The principal amount is spent on alcohol - 1 liter of isopropyl costs about 200 rubles. Ruble run over the rest of the container, water, work. Accordingly, all nezamerzayka worth up to 200 rubles is not on the basis of isopropyl. Pungent smell that bothers some drivers, it is absolutely harmless, no matter with which it is mixed with alcohol. Head of the Analytical Center of Chemistry Department of Moscow State University, Ph.D., Igor Rodin noted that the flavorings that are used in industry, it is absolutely not toxic. "This is probably the psychological discomfort, as even an allergic reaction to these substances occur in 5-10% of cases in people hypersensitive to the individual components" - said the chemist. Not one piece of advice, how to choose quality nezamerzayku, can not be given. Good fluid can get on the road for 100 rubles, while in the store can be bought for 500 rubles a liquid which freezes at 10 degrees below zero. Our country is not regulated by law the sale and distribution nezamerzayki, must rely on luck - no instruments to measure the ratio of water and alcohol do not, it can only be done in the laboratory. Unfortunately, the quality of nezamerzayki can learn only when it freezes much - someone it freezes on the way to the injectors. In this case, you can go on a warm underground parking or put the car in a warm box for a couple of hours, and then pour alcohol into the tank (very cheap vodka). In stores you can meet some isopropyl concentrate, which can "break" the ice barrier. Igor Rodin explained this reaction so that the interaction of alcohol with ice there is heat. The content of alcohol in such a concentrate to be very high. Engage in the production of freezing liquid legally disadvantageous, so we have the market there is only one company that advertises its means. In any case, the "illegal" nezamerzaek in the country sold many times more. If several companies engaged in such production, then together they managed to move quickly to deal with laws and may lift the ban on safe and inexpensive methyl. Text: Olga Zabelkina.

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