On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 12- An empirical confirmation, not rigorous though, is the fact that I
> extracted many times the probe from the chimney of the reactor, and it was
> "ictu oculi" dry: being the chimney a small vertical cylinder, due to the
> gravity in short time it would be filled by water, if significant amount of
> water shouldn’t evaporate, with two consequences: i) the temperature could
> not be 101.1 Celsius and ii) the probe would have been wet.
>
> ("ictu oculi" means "in the blink of an eye" in Latin. Not sure what it
> means in this context.)
It means that he verified it only with his eyes not with other methods.
