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- From: bouche2@server.uwindsor.ca (BOUCHER DAVID )
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- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - ABIAN replies to POLOWIN
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- Date: 21 Dec 1992 20:21:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.210106.26302@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <BzFBo6.F12@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> <BzFE4H.9Dw@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <BzFE4H.9Dw@news.iastate.edu> abian@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian) writes:
- >In article <BzFBo6.F12@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> polowin@chem.queensu.ca (Joel Polow
- >>[Abian claims that]
- >>sulfuric acid emits heat when it contacts water in an attempt to
- >>maintain its status quo by evaporating the water -- ignoring the fact
- >>that conc. sulfuric will happily absorb water vapour from the air.
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- > IT IS THE TENDENCY OF THE WATER IN THE AIR NOT TO ALLOW THE
- > CONCENTRATION OF THE ENEMY ( i.e. the sulfuic acid) AND THE WATER
- > IN AIR TRIES TO DILUTE THE ENEMY AND FEEL SECURE (the same
- > way that General Petain tried to dilute the enemy)
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- The why is it that oil under the same conditions does NOT absorb water?
- What does water have against sulfuric acid, that it should consider it an
- enemy?
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- If you put two glasses, one half-filled with water, and the other half-filled
- with concentrated sulfuric acid, inside a sealed chamber, in a few days one
- glass will be empty and the other will be full of dilute sulfuric acid. The
- "status quo" is not maintained. If you do the same thing with half-filled
- glasses of water and vegetable oil, then as long as the chamber is sealed, the
- status quo IS maintained. The reason has nothing to do with "security".
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