On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mary Yugo <maryyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> An ultrasonic nebulizer is certainly possibly but it's a bit far fetched. >> > > A bit? How would the water from this reach the end of the hose without > forming drops and becoming an ordinary flow of water? I would say that is > impossible. > > So some things are impossible? You should keep an open mind. It doesn't violate any principles of physics for a mist of micrometer droplets to travel through a hose, and it is far more plausible than radiationless nuclear reactions producing heat. The steam is flowing at something close to a m/s, depending on the fraction that gets vaporized, and the diameter of the hose. A fine mist or fog carried along with the steam would take only a few seconds to get through the hose. It seems entirely plausible that half of it would survive as a mist, while the other half is collected as a liquid.
