"Borked Pseudo Mailed" wrote in message d.net...
| Paladin wrote:
|
| | Suppose I have water in a beaker and place it in a bell jar. The air in the
| | bell jar is pumped out, lowering the pressure. Eventually the water begins
| | to boil.
| |
| | Where is the heat source causing it to boil?
|
| There is no heat source in that case but the water
| is not boiling.
|
| Clueless nonsense. The boiling point of water depends on ambient
| pressure, and with sufficient evacuation of air it's boiling point can
| be reduced to room temperature or lower. In fact in a vacuum water's
| boiling point and freezing point are the same. It's called being at
| "triple point". It's how thermometers are calibrated as a matter of
| fact.

The definition of boiling in English states that it's a process
induced by adding heat. It says nothing about reducing pressure.

To claim you can make water boil by reducing pressure is erroneous.
(where's the application of heat?)

You can only vaporize water by reducing pressure. You can't boil
water by reducing pressure. Saying "I'm gonna boil this water
by reducing pressure" is like saying, "I'm gonna drink this beer
by putting it up my ass via enema." Just as the verb "to drink" means
to ingest via the mouth and esophagus so does the verb "to boil"
mean vaporize by adding heat.

|
| Honestly, this is 7th grade general science in MOST school districts.
| Which tells us you not nearly as "brilliant" as you believe you are.
|

And, your lack of understanding of a simple word definition and its
implications means you're lacking insight.

Paladin

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