<VV> Compressor Tank

[Ron]

What does CO2 have to do with an air tank?

RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ScottyGrover at aol.com>
To: <dkdewald at pasty.net>
Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Compressor Tank


>
> In a message dated 5/16/2007 7:46:24 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> dkdewald at pasty.net writes:
>
> Hello  Scotty,
>
> At atmospheric pressure CO2 gas deposits (condenses) into solid  "dry ice" 
> at
> -78 C.  CO2 only exists in the liquid state at pressures  greater than 5
> atmospheres (about 75 psi).  At room temperature CO2 will  remain liquid 
> in a tank
> at about  800psi.
>
> Dale
>
>
>
> I didn't know that.  Thanks--I only worked in a lab where they brought  in
> huge slabs of dry ice.  Didn't need air conditioning in the summer in  the
> Detroit area---good news.
>
> Scotty from Hollyweird
>
>
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