Glycerine - Industrial Applications and Facts

Glycerine is commonly called glycerol or glycerin. It is a sweet-tasting alcohol that is colorless and odorless. It becomes a gummy paste when frozen, although freezing it can only be achieved at very low temperatures. It melts at 18 degrees Celsius and boils at 290 degrees Celsius. Its chemical formula is C3H8O3. It is miscible in water and alcohol. However, it does not mix with oil. It is an excellent solvent. In fact, there are substances that dissolve better in glycerol than in water or alcohol.

The compound absorbs water from the air. This is why it is known as a hygroscopic substance. Suppose you leave a container of pure glycerine or glycerol in open air, it will become diluted as it joins water molecules. According to a speculation, a drop of this liquid in the tongue can raise a blister because it would draw out water from deep into the tongue tissue. But this remains a clever speculation.

The sweet-tasting alcohol is found in many skin moisturizing lotions and creams because of the water-retaining and water-absorbing capacity. Thus, it softens and smoothens the skin. It is believed, however, that this substance has other beneficial properties as well as simply moisturizing and attracting water molecules.

The compound originates from fats and oils. In fact, molecules of fat contain glycerol. One way to extract it from fats or oils is through saponification - a chemical reaction involving a fat and an alkali. This chemical reaction produces soap. Soap-making is a common source of this trihydric alcohol under discussion.

Extraction of glycerine from soap-making only began in 1889. Before this time, people did not know how to recover the compound. The only way to produce the compound is through candle-making using animal fats. In the year mentioned, an effective way to isolate glycerol from soap was at last discovered and later utilized. During this time and a few decades after, much of the compound went to production of nitroglycerin - a compound derived from glycerol used to make dynamites and explosives. During World War II, soap industry was not able to suffice the huge demands for the chemical. Here, synthetic production was implemented.

The production, separation and purification of glycerol involve a tedious process. When lye (sodium hydroxide) reacts with fat, soap is produced but is in mixture with glycerin. Homemade soap does not run through intrate procedure, so, the soap mixture contains all the glycerol that results from the reaction. Commercial soap-makers, although removes the compound from the mixture by adding salt. Salt curdles the soap, which is seen to float on top of the mixture. The floating soap is then scooped out or skimmed. This leaves the organic chemical with some impurities such as partially dissolved soap and extra salt. The trihydric chemical is then finally taken out of the mixture through distillation. It does not end here because further impurities are removed by passing the chemical into a charcoal filter or using bleaching techniques. The final product is a highly concentrated and colorless glycerin.

History has seen the making of the compound into explosive. However, it is never explosive in itself. It has to be changed into nitroglycerin first before it becomes explosive. Furthermore, nitroglycerin is not only used in explosives but is found as a medication for heart disease.

The compound has many uses. It is a preservative for fruits and food products. Lotions and creams contain this chemical as an emulsifying and moisturizing agent. In hydraulic jacks it serves as antifreeze. The antiseptic qualities of this chemical make it valuable in biological laboratories such as to preserve specimens in jars. Moisturizing soaps contain the compound. These soaps are usually clear and are easy to make.

How to Start Making Money With ClickBank

Making money with ClickBank can be pretty easy, as long as you know what you are doing. In a nutshell, it simply involves doing some simple and duplicable steps that I will explain in this article. Making money with ClickBank can sometimes appear to be very hard, but it does not have to be, there are definitely no "secrets" to it.

Based on my affiliate marketing experiences, as long as you know what you are doing ANYBODY can make money with ClickBank. However, there is a process which you need to learn and follow, so lets begin!

Step 1. Creating Your ClickBank Account.

In order to sell ClickBank products, the first thing you need to do is to register as a ClickBank affiliate, and to do this you need to create your own affiliate account following following the next few easy steps in the process:

a). Go to ClickBank.com and complete the ClickBank affiliate sign up form. This will only take you a few minutes. It is a straightforward thing to do, just follow the instructions on ClickBank.com. It is important to make sure your contact details (email) are correct as ClickBank will confirm your affiliate account by email.

b). Once you receive your affiliate account confirmation email, click the link within the email and this will bring you to the confirmation page. This is where you can log-in via the log-in link at the top of the page.

When you have logged in you will then be taken to your account homepage, where you can keep track of your sales and earnings. Once here, you just need to enter some information in the Payment information section. There are 2 parts to this section, one for your preferred payment method, and the other for your payment thresholds. Payment method gives you the option to choose how you would like to receive your responsibilities. However, new affiliates can only receive their responsibilities by check, until they have made some consistent sales.

The Payment Threshold is the minimum amount you will need to earn in commissions before ClickBank will send your payment. You can edit this by clicking the edit link located in the top right hand corner of the payment information area.

Step 2. How to Select Your ClickBank Product.

Now, obviously selecting the right ClickBank product to promote includes some other important steps you will ever need to explore, such as keyword research. As keyword research is outside of the remit of this article, and is a complete subject on it's own, you can find out more and read some of my keyword research articles by clicking the link contained in my author bio at the end of this article.

Now, back to the ClickBank Marketplace. On the My Account Homepage you will notice a link at the top of the page called "Marketplace." Click on it! You will now see a list of product categories, from which you can choose a product to sell. So choose a category and we can move onto the next stage of the process.

Assuming you have chosen a category, you should now be looking at a list of product results, now you need to take a number of factors into account BEFORE making your product choice, such as:

1. Gravity. - This tells you how many affiliates are making money with the product. I recommend choosing products with a gravity of 300 or more.

2. Avg% / Sale. - This gives you the average amount of commission that vendors will offer for each sale. I recommend promoting ClickBank products that offer 50% commission or more.

3. Avg Rebill. - This tells you whether or not this product is a subscription product or not. I recommend only choosing the products that will pay you a recurring monthly income, so ONLY choose a product that has a $ 15 or more rebill total in this field, because this means you will get paid this amount over and over again.

Now that you have selected your ClickBank product using the criteria above, you need create your unique affiliate link to begin promoting. ClickBank call this a "Hoplink".
To create your "Hoplink" you need to do the following (Do not worry this is easy):

1. Click the "Promote" button next to the product you have chosen.

2. On the next page called "Affiliate Program: Promote Products for (Vendor name)". You need to enter your account nickname (ID) then click "Create", and you will be presented with 2 affiliate links (Hoplink). You should copy these links and paste into an excel spreadsheet on your computer. Remember these are YOUR AFFILIATE LINKS that you will use for promotion and are how you get paid for each sale, so look after them as ClickBank will not store them for you.

You will notice that they are two Hoplinks, but unless you are a web designer with HTML coding knowledge, you should only need to use the shorter version (usually with the black font as opposed to the longer one in blue)

How to Start Making Money With ClickBank - Step 3.

Promoting Your Chosen Product.

So you should now have your FREE ClickBank account created with your first Hoplink to promote. There are many marketing methods you can choose, but beware of "marketing method overload" particularly if you are a newbie. This is when you try to master all marketing methods at once, and do not achieve your goals as you do not become competent at any.

So my advice is to choose a marketing method you are comfortable with, then a master at it, then move onto the next.

To start making money with ClickBank journey, I highly recommend using Article marketing and Free Social Media to start with, particularly if you are on a limited budget, and especially if you have time as opposed to money.

However, if you are looking for fast results from your marketing, and you can spend some money, then paid advertising is the way to go, such as PPC or Solo-ads. There are many too many marketing methods to go into this Article, but to find out more, simply click on the link to my blog contained in the author bio at the end of this article.

So there you have it, a quick and easy way for you to start making money with ClickBank, once you begin, if you are anything like me you will be astounded at just how easy it is to make money with ClickBank, and continuously add multiple streams of internet income to your bank accounts.

5 Types of Car Air Fresheners

Car air fresheners with a sweet fragrance have the ability to quickly overpower plenty of bad smells to provide a fresh smelling sanctuary for the more enjoyable car journey. Well-chosen air fresheners can produce a pleasant smell that is powerful enough to eliminate odors related to smoking, takeout food, or other foul smells. Here are five of the best car air fresheners on the market:

Can

The can style of air freshener is similar to the sticky gel, and consist of a metal or plastic can that holds a sweet-smelling fragrant gel pack. The can has a top section with adjustable holes which makes it easy to determine the amount of fragrance to release at any one time. While these products have the potential to last longer than most of the sticky gel products, they still are not very effective at removing the strongest smells in the vehicle.

Plug-in

The plug-in fresheners are a popular choice and consist of an oil-based compound that is contained within a plastic housing. They are designed to plug into the power outlet on the dashboard, and start to emit a fragrance once the oil-based compound is heated. This plug-in is great for strong odors, and soon fills the entire car with a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Spray

The spray type of freshener is quick and easy to use. The liquid-gaseous fragrance for these air fresheners comes in a pressurized can which can be sprayed when an unpleasant smell is noticed. Spray fresheners are not the longest lying and will need to be sprayed at regular intervals if expecting to block out the most powerful odors.

Sticky Gel

The sticky gel air fresheners are made with a solid, sticky type of gel that holds the fragrant oil. This type of freshener easily sticks to any dry surface within the vehicle without a need to use adhesive. Also, because it does not rely on the air vents or other form of propulsion it is not as effective at eliminating the stronger smells inside the vehicle. A positive of the fragrance oil is the ability to last longer than the aerosol, paper or cardboard products.

Cardboard

The low-cost solution to keep the vehicle smelling fresh is the hanging cardboard air fresheners. They are meant to hang from the rear view mirror, and made from a spotted cardboard. While the photographed cardboard products are quite long-lasting they are not the most effective at controlling the most noticeable or unpleasant smells inside the vehicle.

Retail Sales Up Mid-2013 But Why - A Historical Perspective

We saw a huge uptick in retail sales, which bodes well for our economic indicators showing an Obama Administration recovery. Still, before you throw up your hands and signal victory, I think you and I need to talk. Now, it's no secret that I have little respect or love of socialist leaning administrations or governments here or anywhere else on this pale blue dot - neverless, do not let that taint the reality of what I am about to say here today. Let's talk.

First, when car sales are down, the administration, regardless of who is in power - Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter did the same also - pull those auto sales figures out of the retail sales economic data, separating them, but when sales are up, they throw those numbers back into the mix saying; "autos really are part of retail sales," and thus, they should be illustrated together. Well, figures lie and liars figure and administrations obviously have political agendas - no surprise there, so I am not picking on the Obama Administration.

However, when Barack Obama goes on TV and reads from his teleprompter how he saved the auto industry - when it was actually Bush Jr. who started the bail-out of the auto industry - and points to auto sales being so strong, along with retail - that his "recovery" strategy is working - well, I just cringe. Why you ask? Well, because it just is not so. And do you know why auto sales are up? Low interest rates and easy money car loans - that's why. There is only one problem with all of that easy money to consumers.

There was an interesting article in the Los Angeles Times on May 21, 2013 titled; "Car-Loan Delinquencies, Repos Surge," by Ronald D. White which noted that "the number of auto loan delinquent at least 60-days climbed 12.4% in Q1 of 2013.

To me retail sales indicate real transactions where real money is exchanged for goods. If auto dealers find hapless questionable consumers to sign their name to a loan document and take a car for near no money down, no interest, and no payments for 90-days, well, that is not really a sale in my view. Further, it does not show a recovery of the auto industry, it shows a revival of incompetent business practices and more down the road can kicking by corporate leaders, economists, bankers, and politicians. Please consider all this and think on it.

Where to Buy a Business Quick

Usually, buying a business takes a long time if you are buying a store front in your area or the area around you. But, if you want to get started with a career as a business owner, you can look online to buy a business quick and get it running right away.

Traditionally, people have taken a very long time to negotiate the sale and purchase of a business. This has just been the way things work. And they are often even slower with some store fronts and older businesses. Of course, though, times have made a lot of changes to the way things traditionally worked, and this field is no exception to the rule at all. Things are very different since the rise of the Internet as a method of not only doing business, but buying and selling businesses as well.

You can look on the Internet and find a business that you like if you want to buy a business quick. This usually allows for a transaction that will go very quickly because most people want to sell a business quickly if they are advertising it online. And then there are the exclusively online businesses that have no store front at all. Of course, these are much easier to transfer from one owner to another because they do not have all of the history that the physical businesses have. Most online business will be a lot less paperwork to buy and sell than a business that has a store front.

If you want to buy a business quick, the best place to look is through online ads that are posted on websites. You can make offers or find an asking price that you like for a particular type of business that you want to buy and within a couple of days, you will have communication. You can have your business within a couple weeks or less if everything goes right.

There is something you should always keep in mind, though, if you are wanting to buy a business quickly and especially online. You are always at risk of getting scammed or buying a business that is failing. So, even though you are making a very quick purchase, make sure that you have still done all of your research and you are not falling into a scam that will cause you many problems at all. This is your responsibility as the buyer to keep an eye out.

If you want to buy a business quick, you can these days. You do not have to go through the slow process that you would normally experience if you attempted to buy a business with a physical storefront. Instead, you can buy an online business in much less time than you would ever have to. This is a very simple process, and you can get the business you want for a great price in most cases. Of course, you should always remember to keep your eyes open for scams and bad offers on the Internet.

3 Ways to Get a Car Loan With Bad Credit & No Money Down

If you have bad credit you have probably been to more than one car dealership that has turned you down. This is very common that people do not accept the opinion of the first car dealer and so they go looking for a second opinion much like many people do with doctors. We just do not like to hear the bad news and were looking for someone that will tell us what we want to hear.

Here are three ways that you can get approved for a bad credit car loan without having to put any money down.

1) If you have a local bank or credit union that you have your checking account with, you may be surprised to find that they will actually offer you a car loans so long as, you have a reasonable average balance and do not ever have any overdrafts. You will have to have a stable place of residence that you have probably been added for at least two or three years, you will need to have been eager job for a reasonable amount of time, and the price of the car needs to be within certain guidelines. These guidelines will relate to the loan amount. The loan amount versus the loan value. Getting a car loan with no money down using a local bank or credit union, means that you will have to find a deal on a car that is priced at or near loan value.

2) Buy here pay car lots are not the cheapest place to buy a car, however financing is very easy. Some places do not even have a credit check and do not really even have any requirements whatever, other than having a down payment. The only way to avoid a down payment when buying a car at a car lot that finances their own cars, is to have a trade-in that is either paid off or has considered equity. This is not the best option for you if you want to save money and get a good deal on a car, however, I mentioned this information in this article because buy here pay here car lots are commonly considered as an option when you have credit problems and need a car.

3) Online loan companies that are legitimate, can offer you finance saying with no money down and guidelines and lending standards are quite a bit different from those that you will find when using a local bank. These types of lenders work only with people that have bad credit, and are in business just to help people out there that have bad credit and can not get financed at a car dealership. This is by far the easiest way to get a fast approval, get lower monthly car payments, and a better interest rates. One of the great things about using a service like this, is that you can pick and choose what model and make of car that you want, without being limited to what just one car dealership has to offer.it is much easier to get a no money down car loan when you are able to shop around and find a good feel on a car. When you can do this you can find good deals and local classified newspapers, bargain hunters, and even on-line auction sites.

Materials And Design Details Available In Garage Doors

Traditionally speaking, garage doors get a bad rap for being boring. Luckily, things are getting more exciting in this field. Designers are coming up with new looks and product developers are finding ways to make new models more efficient in a number of ways. One thing's for sure - today's options are much different than what many homeowners bought just 10 years ago!

Steel is generally regarded as the most solid material option. Rust protection comes in the form of a baked-on primer and polyester topcoat, which is common. Wood is not as popular as it once was; however, many homeowners who are looking for a custom design choose this artisan-friendly material. These models require more frequent upkeep, such as regular staining or painting. A newer material option that is gaining in popularity is plastic. These doors are lightweight and durable, plus they're incredibly easy to clean. Another noteworthy feature is that they will not rust or rot like steel and wood often do.

Brands offer various warranties for different models and types of materials. Steel garage doors often have a warranty of 15 or more years, with some of them even featuring a limited lifetime warranty. The warranties for plastic doors rival those of many steel models, often excluding 20 years. In contrast, wooden options may have a warranty of just a year. Custom options vary and may have a full lifetime warranty or a more basic coverage for a few years.

Many homeowners are choosing to install two single garage doors instead of a large one built for two cars. This can mean more efficient energy consumption. These modern models keep heat in during the cold winter months and that valuable cool air in when the weather is hot. That means cost savings and a more comfortable garage temperature to welcome you home after a long day at work or out running errands.

More and more upscale, customizable options are appearing on the market these days as well. Faux wood finishes are one popular look that is both practical and unique. Carriage house-style doors are also picking up in popularity as younger homeowners demonstrate their admiration for older looks that reflect housing styles from many years ago. Some manufacturers are also expanding their product lines to include complementary pieces such as shutters and front doors. These new options enable homeowners to have a little fun when buying a garage door and add to the visual appeal of their property.