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On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:48:36 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
following:

>In article <53984cd2$0$29988$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>> Yes, technically water-cooled engines are cooled by air too. The engine 
>> heats a coolant (despite the name, usually not water these days) which 
>> then heats the air.
>
>Not water???  I'm not aware of any water-cooled engines which use 
>anything other than water.  Well, OK, it's really a solution of ethylene 
>or propylene glycol in water, but the water is what does most of the 
>heat transfer.  The glycol is just there to provide freezing point 
>depression and boiling point elevation.

	The point was that said coolant is, itself, cooled via an air/water
heat exchanger (the radiator -- which in most cars proceeds to then pass
the now-heated air back over the engine <G>)
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