# Oil... how does it work? \[split\]

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**Created:** [January 6, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189 "2012-01-06T23:40:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189/103 "2012-01-09T11:35:03Z")

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> [@Stimulus Payment Schedule - check yours](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stimulus-payment-schedule-check-yours/46338/145):
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> Because more viscous is thinner and  
> Less viscous is thicker.
> 
> Better correct yourself before you have Wayne jumping in here calling you dumb.
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> Viscosity is a unit of measurement. It’s not relative. It’s going to vary at different temperatures yes, but an inch is an inch and a foot is a foot. It’s a unit of measurement.
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> If two fluids are tested at entirely different temps their viscosity will be recorded as the same, at those corresponding temps.
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> Here is a proposal for you.
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> You measure a random fluid at 50 degrees celsius and it’s rather fluid. So you think it’s rather viscous so you give it a reading of 60. You freeze it at zero and it becomes molasses like, thicker, what reading what you give it?
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> Keep in mind, the higher the number the thicker.
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> :pop

The viscosity of your mystery fluid would be higher if it got thicker.

I can not comprehend what you are not understanding.

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