The innocence of many of your questions as posed should be more overtly
valued... many of us are busy asking (quietly) similar or related
questions.
Amen!
A thing to think about re: mixing of alcohol and water is that both are
polar molecules, and thus mutually attracted, which no doubt
Arlo -
/ The reason for this is, taking the example of salt in water, is
that the salt separates into it's ionic components (for reasons
unknown to me pending further reading) which then would repel each
other...or only the like-charged ones would. Hm, I guess that too is
pending
Lets chat about the Higgs discovery, its likely-hood of being correct, and
the impact it will have going forward .. at the next Friam @ St Johns.
Could someone see if Hywel White is available .. or anyone you know who'd
like to hold forth on the topic!
-- Owen
I think a solid 'dissolved' in another solid is an alloy, e.g. steel (Fe
and C), brass (Zn and Cu) tho' they have to be melted first. BTW
something funny happens with ethanol and water since they can't
ultimately be separated by distillation (let alone gravity fields)
because of the formation
