Article originally published on Noria.com.
Are synthetic lubricants always a wise choice? To answer this question, we must take a critical look not just at the benefits of synthetic lubricants, but also the potential pitfalls. For example, synthetic lubricants are typically made by taking small building-block molecules and joining them together, a process referred to as polymerization.
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