Mobile 1 & Moblie 1 EP Q
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Re: Mobile 1 & Moblie 1 EP Q
I'm from a generation where everything started being made from oil,
my plastic toys, to the nylons my mother gave up for the war effort. We
didn't think of it a synthetic, just a product we used:
http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/s...lproducts.html
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
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Stephen Cowell wrote:
>
> "L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:429E160F.110E33E6@***.net...
> > Stephen Cowell wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > I thought the site was very clear!
> > >
> > > " Defining the term "synthetic lubricant" is becoming more
> > > controversial these days, but in general it refers to a lubricant
> > > or grease whose basestock has been manufactured by
> > > chemical synthesis or organic reaction, as opposed to
> > > being extracted or refined from naturally occurring oils. "
> > >
> > > Is there something there you don't understand?
>
> > The courts have let the legal definition of synthetic slide into
> > meaning refined from petroleum basestocks, as we see at this site:
> > http://www.1st-in-synthetics.com/articles7.htm
>
> Nice link... read the whole thing. My understanding
> was that refining oil makes smaller molecules, and
> reformation makes bigger molecules... turns out that
> the petrochemical industry puts *all* of its processes
> under the heading of 'refining'.
>
> The chemical industry is headed for the time when
> we can create *anything* ouf of *anything*...
> anyway, thanks for helping me learn something, Bill.
> Synthetic oil can come from the ground.
> __
> Steve
> .
>
> __
> Steve
> .
my plastic toys, to the nylons my mother gave up for the war effort. We
didn't think of it a synthetic, just a product we used:
http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/s...lproducts.html
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Stephen Cowell wrote:
>
> "L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:429E160F.110E33E6@***.net...
> > Stephen Cowell wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > I thought the site was very clear!
> > >
> > > " Defining the term "synthetic lubricant" is becoming more
> > > controversial these days, but in general it refers to a lubricant
> > > or grease whose basestock has been manufactured by
> > > chemical synthesis or organic reaction, as opposed to
> > > being extracted or refined from naturally occurring oils. "
> > >
> > > Is there something there you don't understand?
>
> > The courts have let the legal definition of synthetic slide into
> > meaning refined from petroleum basestocks, as we see at this site:
> > http://www.1st-in-synthetics.com/articles7.htm
>
> Nice link... read the whole thing. My understanding
> was that refining oil makes smaller molecules, and
> reformation makes bigger molecules... turns out that
> the petrochemical industry puts *all* of its processes
> under the heading of 'refining'.
>
> The chemical industry is headed for the time when
> we can create *anything* ouf of *anything*...
> anyway, thanks for helping me learn something, Bill.
> Synthetic oil can come from the ground.
> __
> Steve
> .
>
> __
> Steve
> .
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