Re: Liquid Ballest question

Posted by Haas on January 08, 2005 at 18:25:52 from (12.65.36.36):

In Reply to: Liquid Ballest question posted by Ibby on January 08, 2005 at 04:43:15:

Could be other reasons, but one is that Calcium Chloride is a better antifreeze. I'm not sure of the numbers without looking up, but I know that a Sodium Chloride solution will freeze at a higher temperature than the Calcium. I decided to look it up. The lowest freezing point you can get with Sodium Chloride is -6 F at 23 percent salt. At higher concentrations than that, the freezing point goes back to higher temps. With Calcium you don't have that problem. At 30 percent calcium, the freezing point is -40 F. That would be 30 percent as anhydrous (dry) calcium. The Calcium as you buy it likely contains only about 75 percent calcium chloride (the rest is water) So you would need about 40 percent solution of the commercial calcium to get the -40 freeze point.

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