Grimer wrote:
I think it's about time to set about raising Polly Water
from the dead, a tad more difficult than Saving Private
Ryan but one more suited to my temperament and capacities. 8-)
Before someone parrots Martha and saith,
"by this time she stinketh, for she is now of four decades"
I would point out that it will be all the more of a challenge
then to bring her back to life.
If, as I suspect, polywater is an alias for waterfuel then
she might even beat cold fusion to the punch as a limitless
source of energy. Now that would be nice, wouldn't it. 8-)
Starting with Wiki I retrieved a rather perceptive comment on
the article from.....
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Polywater";
.....which reads as follows.
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Inconsistency
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There seems to be an inconsistency in the article.
At the beginning, the properties of the
hypothetical substance are said to include a
"freezing point of -40 °C or lower, a boiling
point of 150 °C or greater". Later, it is said
that sweat was found to have the same properties,
and that "when subjected to chemical analysis,
samples of polywater were invariably contaminated
with other substances (explaining the changes in
melting and boiling points)". I don't know what
sort of contaminations could cause such enormous
changes in the freezing point and boiling point,
I believe ethylene glycol could do that ... but it takes about a 50% mix
by volume which is a pretty serious level of contamination. And I'm not
sure it would actually push the boiling point that high, in any case.
but I'm pretty sure that a) sweat doesn't have
these properties
If your sweat contains that much ethylene glycol you have a problem.
and that b) if some contamination
were indeed able to produce such properties, it
wouldn't take sophisticated chemical analysis to
see that the water was contaminated.
Right, the stuff with 50% glycol tastes sweet, the "uncontaminated"
water doesn't.
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He has quite a point, has he not. 8-)
But that's enough for one post.
Cheers,
Frank
