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- From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
- Subject: Re: Cappucino Noise + steam hammering
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:20:13 GMT
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- Well, there are steam bubbles and there are steam bubbles. Steam
- bubbles in the bottom of an open pot of boiling water may have
- their effects limited to the production of little crackling sounds,
- but steam bubbles
- inside the boiler tubes of locomotives are quite capable of blowing
- the boiler to bits. Steam bubbles explosively expanding and collapsing
- inside the plumbing of a heating system will move kg slugs of water
- at a good clip.
-