At 11:55 AM 7/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Damon Craig
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
Originally, you may recall, numbers caste about were as high as 97%
liquid by mass. This is dense enough a chunk of oak would float in it.
Please. 97% liquid by mass is still only 2% liquid by volume. That
means the density would be .02*1g/cc + .98*(1/1700)g/cc = .02 g/cc,
about 50 times less dense than water. This sort of wet steam (3%
quality) is entirely plausible and is studied extensively in the literature.
Yeah, I *sort of* understand this stuff and still I forget. Joshua is
right. Completely. That does not mean that 97% steam is likely, but
it is certainly possible.
