Liquid Natural Flatulence

[Tyler Durden]

Uh...this is getting tiring...as far as I'm concerned this part of the 
discussion looks like semantics.

>From a pure physics standpoint, there isn't a hell of a lot of diference 
between a noncrystalline solid and a liquid. One's moving faster. The 
gaseous state is of course where molecules have reached an escape velocity, 
overcoming the inter-molecular attraction. In the case of a noncrystalline 
solid (at room temp) it probably makes sense to include transition from the 
"liquid" state into gaseous as being describable by the word "sublimation". 
If not, the word is probably not very useful outside of HS and pre-med 
physics courses.

-TD





>From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
>To: <cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net>
>Subject: Re: Liquid Natural Flatulence
>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:38:03 -0500
>
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>At 7:56 PM +0100 3/31/04, Jim Dixon wrote:
> >"Sublimation of an element or substance is a conversion between the
> >solid and the gaseous states with no liquid intermediate stage."
>
>Yes, I know the common definition.
>
>But, like I said, I was told by someone who claimed to know better,
>and, thinking about it, I think he's right.
>
>Since some people, like Peter, hypothesize that it's an extreme
>example of evaporation and not sublimation, :-), I'm going to go poke
>my nephew the chemistry student and see if I can get a pointer to an
>authoritative explanation.
>
>How's that?
>
>Cheers,
>RAH
>
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