References

Blog 1:
"Watercooling Fluid Shootout." Bit-tech. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 June 2015.  

C     Chemistry Class knowledge

       Blog 2:

       "Arctic Silver 5 High Density Compound." Arctic Silver, n.d. Web. <http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arcticsilver.com%2Freviews%2Fas5%2Fpcsynapse%2Fpcsynapse_reviews.php.htm%3Fverify%3D14>.

       "Arctic Silver: AS5." Arcticsilver.com. Arctic Silver, n.d. Web. 11 June 2015. <http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arcticsilver.com%2Fas5.htm>.

      Blog 3:
      Stroyan, K.d. "Chemical Reactions." Calculus Using Mathematica (1993): 183-91. Web. 11 June 2015.

      "10 Common Reactions We See Every Day." Chemistry.about.com. Chemistry.about, n.d. Web. 11 June 2015. <http%3A%2F%2Fchemistry.about.com%2Fod%2Fchemicalreactions%2Fss%2F10-Examples-of-Chemical-Reactions-in-Everyday-Life.htm>.

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"A    Algae Basics - All About Algae." Algae Basics - All About Algae. Allaboutalgae, n.d. Web. 11 June 2015. <http://allaboutalgae.com/what-are-algae/>.

      "Antimicrobial (Algae) Protection." EKWB,com. EKWB, n.d. Web. 11 June 2015. <http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ekwb.com%2Fsupport%2Findex.php%3Fact%3Darticle%26code%3Dview%26id%3D24>.
      
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      "Phase Change Cooling (vapour) Defenition."Http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 June 2015. <http%3A%2F%2Fsearchnetworking.techtarget.com%2Fdefinition%2Fphase-change-cooling>.

       "Phase Change Cooling." Http://www.dimastech.com/. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 June 2015. <http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dimastech.com%2Fen%2Fcascade-phase-change-cooling-systems>.

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       Helmenstine, Anne Marie. "What Can You Do with a Degree in Chemistry?"Http://chemistry.about.com/. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 June 2015. <http%3A%2F%2Fchemistry.about.com%2Fod%2Feducationemployment%2Ftp%2FWhat-Can-You-Do-with-a-Degree-in-Chemistry.htm>.

       Helmensteain, Anne Marie. "What Are Some Careers in Chemistry?"Http://chemistry.about.com/. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 June 2015. <http%3A%2F%2Fchemistry.about.com%2Fcs%2F5%2Ff%2Fblcareers.htm>.

Career with chemistry?

So you learn all this stuff in your chemistry class, but you sit there thinking what the heck am I ever
going to do with this stuff I learn, when am I ever going to have to identify what substance is present in this or how much of element X I have in Solution Y or whatever it is you do in your chem class! Well, you would be surprised...did you know chemistry is used by many brilliant people every single day? From forensic scientists to chemical engineers to healthcare scientists, and to toxicologists. There are millions and millions of people who work every single day in this field and use their chemical knowledge to help the world, you can read more in depth about it from this these two articles if you want to know every, juicy detail, http://chemistry.about.com/cs/5/f/blcareers.htm, http://chemistry.about.com/od/educationemployment/tp/What-Can-You-Do-with-a-Degree-in-Chemistry.htm, these are two really interesting articles about few of the many careers there are that involve an individual using their knowledge of chemistry for a living! Lets take a look at what a chemical engineer is. A chemical engineer is actually a generalized category for variants of fields of engineers who use their knowledge to benefit the world and overcome technological challenges and obstacles through the use of their scientific and chemical knowledge, to list every single field in which chemical engineers work would take a list longer than the earth's diameter, but to list a few, we are going to take a look at the fields of food processing and safety industries. Chemical engineers, when it comes to food processing, are in charge of using their knowledge to assist with the regulation and testing of food products, for example they are the ones who determine how to store a product, based off of what is is composed of, they also determine the expiration date on your food and make sure you don't end up pouring yourself a bowl of cereal one day and have it end up tasting like sour garbage. Moving on to safety industries, Chemical engineers are ESSENTIAL. Chemical engineers in the field of safety industries are the one who determine which product has which hazards associated with it, they process and examine the product and make sure it goes out with all the necessary points of information are filled out accurately and correctly, they use their knowledge of various properties of substances such as pH levels and reactivity with other substances to achieve this, without them, some poor schlub would confuse a vial of CuSO4 with Gatorade and end up going to the hospital. In the end, chemical knowledge and the people who use it are essential and the world cannot function without them. You would be surprised just how much of that chemical mumbo jumbo your teacher tells you about in class is being used around you every single day, you would be surprised just how much of it comes in handy to people all over the world! Do you have a cool career in mind that would involve chemistry? if so, tell me us all below and tell us how it utilizes your knowledge of chemistry!

More liquid cooling? Nope, PHASE CHANGE COOLING!

Today I have come across an article that i have found particularly interesting simply due to the fact that i have never seen much of this before, reading this article :http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/phase-change-cooling, I am astonished to see what heights and risks people are taking their expensive hardware towards. I know what you are probably thinking,
Is this going to be another blog post about more computers and chemistry mumbo jumbo that we have heard over and over and over again? NO, well yes, YES AND NO! Its more computers, its more chemistry, but its not the same! I am going to explain how you can keep your hardware below 0 degrees C and all with the use of just gas, (and various other complex components)!Today we are taking a look at phase change cooling, and first thing you might be thinking is, what the heck is that! Well, phase change cooling, which is also called vapor cooling in some cases is a microprocessor cooling technology, which works more or less the same way as your refrigerator at home. The base components for the cooling are a condenser, the vaporizer, the radiating element and the pump! Lets go over what each of them does, the condenser condenses a refrigerant gas into a volatile liquid, where the pump moves the liquid to the vaporizer, where the pressure is dropped and the liquid returns to its original gaseous state. Now that we know what each part does, how does it cool your CPU? When the liquid returns to is gaseous state, it rises to the CPU cooling block, where the thermal energy is absorbed from the processor and brought back down to the radiating element which in essence recycles the heated gas.This method of cooling is far more safer than liquid cooling, due to the fact that the liquid inside the loop is a gas and need high pressure in order to form into a potentially dangerous liquid, if a leak presents itself with a phase change cooler, the gas will simply be removed via the fans of your PC case, because of it very low evaporation point. While traditional liquid cooling usually uses more common liquids such as distilled water or other non-conductive fluids, and if those spill, your out of luck! I hope this helped you see just how effective gas can be when it comes to cooling PC hardware! My question for you dear readers is, why do you believe this method works more effectively than liquid cooling? I s it because its a gas taking away the heat?  Let me know!

How not to colour your custom water cooling fluid!

    

       So most people especially those who build custom water cooling loops in their PC's, tend to use custom fluids along with those loops, and usually seasoned builders tend to deter away from that and use pure distilled water. The reason they use this is because distilled water is 99.9% pure water without any contaminants or conductive ions, the problem with "water cooling newbies" is when they want to have fancy colours tend to do one thing that completely throws them under the bus, they add food dyes or other synthetic/semi-organic substances. They reason this is a terrible idea is one word, Algae. If you are curious as to what that is, ou may read this informative article on it and where it tends to present itself most often, http://allaboutalgae.com/what-are-algae/. In this case Algae is an organism that forms inside an individuals water cooling loop that causes blockage, loss of efficiency by clogging up your pipes, and overall degradation of your components, this usually happens when you use a liquid that has various contaminants from it, also it depends on the pH level on your liquid, temperature of your PC which affects the temperature of the liquid, which helps the algae form, as well as picks up metal ions from your fitting and various other components such as block which causes a precipitate, which is a substance deposited from your solution, (your liquid) in solid form, which causes it to stick to your tubing and your fittings and cause various blockage, generally reducing the efficiency of your loop. How can you avoid algae build up? Simple, use pure fluids, a great example, distilled water, well distilled water has no contaminants in it and is non-conductive, if you also add a small amount of biocide or any other anti microbial solution, it will keep any algae from forming. Another method is to used silver coated fittings, silver is an anti-microbial metal and keeps the algae precipitate from forming inside your tubing. So to sum up, if you want to reduce the need for maintenance and algae buildup, use pure liquids with antimicrobial substances, it will keep the organism from forming and keep your loops unblocked and free flowing! Do you have any ideas for a cheap and algae-free way to colour your fluids? without causing corrosion and micro bacterial growth? Let me know!