Why is ethanol a hydrocarbon if it is miscible with water and why does it not produce soot when burned like gasoline, paraffin, diesel, etc.?
Is it because of the short chain structure of the molecular formula C²H⁶O that ethanol doesn't produce soot? Nevertheless, I have a very small amount of soot in my ethanol tabletop fireplace. Where does it come from? & according to the internet (Chemie.de), hydrocarbons are insoluble in water. Why is this not true for ethanol?
Audi 80 B4 ABT soots when cold?
Hello, my dears, I've had a problem with my 80s for a while now and I'm slowly losing my clue where to look for the problem. I have an Audi 80 b4 with the 2.0L 90hp engine (ABT, MonoMotronic), 260,000km. The problem started a year ago: The engine starts without any problems, regardless of whether…
How do I clean this?
I burned paper in a stainless steel bowl and now it's sooty. How do I get rid of it? I have another bowl in which I burned turpentine and now there is a pitch-like sticky mass with soot left over.
Cleaning oil paintings?
The painting is heavily sooted, how can it be cleaned without causing major damage.
How does soot form when burned?
Hello, how does soot form? What must be incompletely burned for soot to form? Can you give examples? (Does it occur from burning photos and clothes?)
Can I wash my car, which has soot on the outside, in the self-service car wash?
Hello, On New Year's Eve, there was a fire in my basement garage, and my car is now covered in soot, but only on the outside. The windows were closed. Can I now simply rinse the soot off my car at a self-service station? I wonder if this is allowed or if there is anything…
Diesel car despite mileage under 10,000 km per year?
Hello dear car specialists 🙂 Here's the thing: I've found that a turbodiesel engine is significantly more appealing to me in terms of acceleration and driving pleasure than a turbo gasoline engine with the same horsepower. Since I plan to buy a "new" used car in a year, I'm considering buying the aforementioned turbodiesel (Golf…