If all you had were small bits of various density styrofoam and various means to boil water, I think some of you could eventially come up with the answer to: "how wet does steam get under conditions X?"
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Damon Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > Or, to ask a little more precisely: How wet does steam get? > > I don't know the answer to this. However, it takes energy to overcome > volumetic tension (commonly called surface tension). How much water will > break off a boiling surface into small suspendable droplets, and how many of > these will be fround in terms of droplet size at a level above the > surface is a duanting theoretical task. > > I think it's best to find emperical answers with a bit of suspended > material such as the styrofoam I suggested, and you-all seem to reject as > meaningless. A little imagination could be in order. > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Joshua Cude <[email protected]>wrote: > >> You've [Lomax] said this several times. But you have not supported it. Why >> can't the steam be wet; i.e. a mist of droplets entrained in water vapor? >> Your idea of a filled chimney with water "overflowing" makes no sense to me >> when you think that steam many times more voluminous and/or faster has to >> get through this standing water. Lazily bubbling through would not cut it. >> >> >> >
