Yeah, your right. What was I thinking?? My boyancy argument is just wrong. Thank's for straightening that out to me. (And, darn it, don't I look stupid.)
As such, I can't see any way to solidly determine if the bulk of the liquid water exits the device suspended in vapor, or simply pours out the spout. Any ideas? On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Joshua Cude <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Damon Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think I'll have to take this one step at a time. >> >> Do you all realize that you could swim up into the sky in >> steam containing 90% by mass water? >> > > I don't think you read what I wrote. The density of water vapor at 100C is > 1700 times lower than that of liquid water. That means that even steam that > has 97% liquid by mass in it has a density 50 times less than water. You > can't swim in that. > > Steam that is 90% liquid by mass is 99.4% vapor by volume. That means the > density is about 200 times less than water. You see, density involves mass > and volume, and very wet steam is still mostly vapor by volume. > > *Think about that before you make ridiculous comments about buoyancy.* > >
