Confirmed: Feser 1 Blue Premix + GTZ = do NOT want

[creidiki]

... sigh.

Ok, it goes like this.

Coolant mixtures are solution.

The most caveman-like way to cause a solution to separate is to change its saturation point so that the the solution turns into a suspension, causing (hopefully) the solute to precipitate or otherwise separate from the solvent.

Some of the most most straightforward, caveman-like ways for a man who likes to assemble furniture by slapping it together with nails to change a solutions saturation point are:

• Rapid pressure changes/vibrations. Think fluid turbulence.
• Subjecting it to UV light. For example, leave it out in the sun. Or subject it to a UV tube
• Repeated temperature change cycles. As in, heat it up and cool it down, again, and again, and again ...
• Adding impurities. Like, for example, dissolved metals, plastics ...
• Evaporate the solvent.

At multiple points as your coolant flows through your loop, it will be subjected to as many as 5 of those separation methods at once. In different combinations. Repeatedly.

Not only that, but it gets progressively worse as it succeeds: as the solution starts to break down, the temperature changes become larger, the turbulence more intense, the coolant is subjected to longer stretches of sustained UV, and macroscopic impurities increase, and the increased temperatures increase microevaporation.

Congratulations Gentlemen, You are now ready for one of the Arcane Secrets Of Watercooling™:

We are a band of fearless modern-day alchemists who, for fun, run solutions through sophisticated, if overpriced, separator setups, and then complain when we succeed in separating said solution.

edit: I hereby grant thee the Rank of Journeyman Keeper Of Secrets. Continue in your path of wisdom-seeking, young padawans, and you shall know the blissful peace of all the Masters of Olde, and all that jazz