Robert Leguillon <robert.leguil...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> You have grown tiresome. > Leaving an anvil in a forge overnight was merely to overstate that it was > at full equilibrium. You said two days, not overnight. Quote: "I warm it in a kiln over two day to roughly orange-hot (it is going to hold this heat for a LONG time, especially if well-insulated)." Also, the degree of insulation has no bearing on how long you leave it in the kiln. > Have you ever cooked a turkey? Iron conducts heat much better than flesh and bones, and it has much lower specific heat, so it reaches equilibrium faster. > Despite what you may think, the core of an object does not immediately > reach the same temperaure as applied to its surface. I never said that. This a strawman argument. You have made several strawman arguments. It is not good form. I have personally repaired an anvil, and you heat it slowly to avoid > destroying its hardened characteristics - and you cool it overnight packed > in vermiculite to allow slow cooling. > That has no bearing at all on your original statement. > Obviously, you prefer to go after an individual. That does not seem obvious to me. I "go after" people who make major errors and who confuse the issue. You, in this case. I did not "gone after" you in the past when we all agreed you were correct, did I? I think you should stop taking this personally and explain more clearly what you have in mind by this statement -- Then you oversimplify arguments with an 8 gallon pot. As far as I know, there is nothing oversimplified about my example. We are talking about 8 gallons of water in an insulated metal container. If you think this is an oversimplification or an invalid simulation, then -- as I said -- please explain what you mean. I cannot comprehend if you're being facetious, or truly do not understand > what we are referring to by stored heat in the core. > I am not being facetious. You are the one who made a profound error about stored heat. I think you should admit that, and I sincerely wish that you would experiment with a large amount of water in an insulated metal vessel. I think you do not understand that system. If you see nothing anomalous in the behavior of Rossi's Oct. 6 reactor, then it is certain you do not understand it, and you do not understand some very basic physics. - Jed
