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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2132