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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Cappucino Noise + steam hammering
- Message-ID: <1431@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:53:29 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.071907.14957@magnus.acs.ohio-s <1992Dec20.050805.22092@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <schumach.724980013@convex.convex.com>
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- In article <schumach.724980013@convex.convex.com> schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
- >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.
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- Just so. However even very destructive bubbles do not usually sound very
- loud. They sound like sand running through the pipes, and so do not explain
- the sound of clanging radiators.
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- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
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