[net.physics] Why your car exhaust is whiteish

iles@hplabs.UUCP (01/05/85)

Car exhaust is visible because there is condensed water inside the tailpipe
and catalytic converter and until this water is expelled, it appears in
the exhaust as vapor/steam/water.

I think this is true.  It certainly seems plausible.

Rafi Esrael

(reply to Dan Lieman, at iles@venus, or anywhere at UC Berkeley Berknet,
 it will get to me eventually).