# 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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**Author:** ![Neo187H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/898d66/32.png) [@Neo187H](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Neo187H)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189/106 "2012-01-09T11:39:06Z")

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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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> 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

That’s the whole point of having the measurements being performed at a single set temp. :lol

Obviously everything is going to have a different viscosity at different temps.

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