X-Message-Number: 2132
Subject: CRYONICS: balast
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 21:55:28 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <>


> From: "Steven B. Harris" <>
> 
>    It may indeed be that, even counting the heat of fusion, 
> ethanol/water has less heat capacity over the temperature range
> we're interested in than water ice.  The only reason to use
> ethanol/water over water might be the heat of fusion temperature
> "knee."  But that may be a good enough reason.

Here is a wacky idea -- possibly a bad one, but who knows. Presumably,
a mixture of water and cryoprotectants such as the ones we use on
patients would have a "knee" EXACTLY where we want it -- at the glass
transition point for the patients!

Perry

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