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- From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
- Subject: Re: about 'naked' nightmares
- References: <kwi.29@postman.hsn.no> <BxtBtv.2qH@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:48:38 GMT
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- v026ltr5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Monty) writes:
-
- >In article <kwi.29@postman.hsn.no>, kwi@postman.hsn.no (KLAUS WILLIAM WIK)
- >writes...
- >>I bathed in below zero'C/32'F water, Ice still drifting by.(icecream stick
- >>to my string)
- >I don't know much about physics, but is it POSSIBLE to have water
- >below 0C? I hate to nitpick someone else's angst (okay... actually,
- >I love it), but I have to know the answer on this one.
-
- Yes. Definitely possible. Now, I guess your question was "Is it possible
- to have liquid water below 0C?" :) The answer to that is yes. You can cool
- water to about -4C, and when you stir it, it instantly gets an ice-block.
- Works only as an experiment (because in nature, you do not have a jar with
- extra-smooth surfaces to put the water in :).
- Of course, you can get water below 0C if you add some salt (i.e. sea water).
- And you could get it below 0C by ... I think ... decreasing air pressure.
-
- Soenke
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