Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihu1g!fish From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: oil viscosity Message-ID: <522@ihu1g.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 22:41:38 EDT Article-I.D.: ihu1g.522 Posted: Mon Sep 24 22:41:38 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 07:40:24 EDT References: <1326@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 13 Almost any fluid will get more viscous with low temperature because the molecules have less free energy then and are thus less inclined to not be in each others' way. Oil viscosity refers to (well I think) its characteristics at operating temperature. Multi-viscosity oils tend to remain near their optimum characteristics over a wider range of operating temperatures, and are thus better suited to climactic extremes than are the single-viscosity oils. -- Bob Fishell ihnp4!ihu1g!fish