This is priceless!!! 8-) ================================================ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res= 9A00E2DE133BF933A0575BC0A967948260 ------------------------------------------------ ... Felix Franks, a British biophysicist and leading authority on the behavior of water, tells his story clearly, in spare prose. In the early 1960's, an obscure Soviet chemist named Nikolai Fedyakin was studying the behavior of water sealed in very narrow glass tubes (called capillaries). He found that secondary columns of water often developed spontaneously in upper parts of the tube where no water had been. These upper columns grew slowly at the expense of the lower, primary columns. ... ================================================
So the water evaporates - But what evapourates? The flakey surface phase evapourates. And what is this surface phase? Why the 8th power vapour phase as described on Professor Chaplin's water site. Poor old Franks has hoisted himself on his own petard. Bouquets for the Ruskies. Brickbats for Harvard. My daughter-in-law will be pleased. Cheers, 8-) Frank ............................................. If the Men in Black are reading this, let's hope that some of them are bright enough to recognise its significance - although the Ruskies deserve to get there first. .............................................
