What is an "antifreeze"?
An antifreeze is an additive which lowers the freezing point of a water-based liquid. An antifreeze mixture is used to achieve freezing-point depression for cold environments. Common antifreezes also increase the boiling point of the liquid, allowing higher coolant temperature. However all common antifreeze additives also have lower heat capacities than water and do reduce water's ability to act as a coolant when added to it.
The purpose of antifreeze is to prevent a rigid enclosure from bursting due to expansion when water freezes.
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skrueger
If you live where it's cold, you will also need to have an antifreeze solution in your windshield washer fluid container.
Gery Tillmanns
No it’s not. It’s fluid to keep devices that require water to not freeze in sub zero conditions like car radiators, windshield washers fluid, RV water systems, cottage water systems. It certainly isn’t a coolant.
Denny Quigley
Antifreeze lowers the freezing point of the water in your radiator from freezing and cracking the block of the car. Windshield antifreeze, which serves the same purpose, came much later
tkudera
Why would you want to make Auntie Freeze?
Just a hypothetical question.