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Coolant versus water

Coolant versus water — which cools your engine better? When it comes to whether coolant or water conducts more heat, the answer is simple; water wins. But there’s way more to the issue than just heat transfer. Coolant versus water when it comes to corrosion Cooling systems contain many different metals; steel, aluminum, manganese, and copper. Any time you combine dissimilar metals with an electrolyte solution, you get galvanic corrosion; an elector-chemical process where a metal that’s more reactive than the others acts like an anode and another as a … Read More