At 08:33 am 07/08/2004 -0700, Jones wrote: [snip]
> "I wonder what would happen if one subjected water > to the Ranque-Hilsch Vortex tube treatment. > Could one separate out the 4-8-12 phases I wonder." [snip] > Jones Had I not been such a stupid bastard I would have realised much earlier than this, that the 12th power vapour was indeed little chunks of three dimensional ice, cos: ======================================================== http://amos.indiana.edu/library/scripts/sublimation.html -------------------------------------------------------- Huh? Didn't we just say water expands when it freezes? Initially, yes. But frozen water can do something else as well: it can sublimate. To sublimate is to go from one state to another without passing through the usual intermediary state. By adding heat, ice can be melted into liquid water, which can be evaporated. That's three states: solid, liquid, gas. But given enough time, ice can also turn into a gas without melting first! When your ice cubes seem to have shrunk, it's because they are sublimating: the frozen water is slowly evaporating off the cubes, without ever actually melting. ======================================================== That's right - Ice sublimates - It ejects little chunks and it is these that form the 12th power vapour the 3D Casimir particles. So what about the 8th power? What about the liquid water "vapour" ? Well if ice vapour is chunks and steam vapour is drops then water vapour simply has to be flakes, don't it. 8-) And there is a nice word for shedding flakes of stuff. Foliation. Liquid water foliates. It sheds little flakes of water. And what could be neater, what could be more reasonable than that? We have a skin. We shed flakes of our skin to be gobbled up by our tiny pets, the dust mites. Water has a skin, too, and evidently it also sheds tiny flakes from its skin. It is these 2D flakes that give rise to the 8th power Casimir Law. Cheers, Frank Grimer ====================================== The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold I see your lips, the summer kisses The sun-burned hands I used to hold Since you went away the days grow long And soon Ill hear old winter's song But I miss you most of all my darling When autumn leaves begin to fall ======================================
