On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:46:36PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 19:25 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > Neither steam nor ice are water; water is liquid dihydrogen monoxide. > > Steam is gaseous dihydrogen monoxide, and ice is solid dihydrogen > > monoxide. > > Water is a chemical compound, It's 'water' in all states. Only lit. > vernacular hints that it might refer to only the liquid form by calling > solid water 'ice' and vaporised water 'steam' and not often calling > either 'water'.
FWIW, while I tend to agree, actually the dictionary disagrees... http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/water?s=t ALL definitions indicate that it is H2O in liquid form. Far more authoritative than Wikipedia IMO. Also FWIW that post was meant to be humerous. I often forget that my brand of humor is lost on most people, and omitted the appropriate emoticon. :) -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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