Klarinet Archive - Posting 000107.txt from 2003/03

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] cork grease and legere reeds
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:21:30 -0500

An olefin (also called alkene) is any hydrocarbon with a double bond and
has the general formula of C(n)H(2n).
It could be petroleum based resulting from a simple distillation process
but most likely it is a product of many reaction intermediates after the
arrival of the original crude oil. In that sense it is likely synthetic
but not necessarily so.

Oliver

At 10:17 AM 3/3/03 -0800, you wrote:

> > <><> Sue wrote:
> > Someone out there could probably explain what "olefin copolymer" (found
> > in the little blue bottle of STP I have in front of me here) is?
> >
> > In short, "olefin copolymer" covers a lot of territory --- sort of like
> > saying "passenger vehicle".
> > Cheers,
> > Bill
>
>Okay, so what I am really wondering: is it a synthetic
>like the Doctor Slick product, or is it petroleum based
>as in traditional cork grease? 8^)
>Sue
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