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NWICY--my banana bread recipe makes two loaves, so I just throw a handful of chocolate chips into half the batter (everyone else loves it with chocolate chips, I like it plain).
I have 2 box mix brownies that I like. There is a recipe I want to try but haven't yet, so mine are always box mix.
I have 2 box mix brownies that I like. There is a recipe I want to try but haven't yet, so mine are always box mix.
Ice is a solid, water is a liquid, steam is a gas. Any material can go from solid to liquid to gas, it's just that we don't normally experience it with substances other than water at the temperatures on earth. We do it regularly, we melt metals for casting, Dry Ice is solid CO2, etc, but those are things we DO to make it happen. Just as you put water in the freezer to make ice, then put it in your drink where it melts, we take chunks of metal, put them in a furnace to melt it, then pour it in a mold where it re-solidifies...it's just a different state transition (liquid-solid-liquid instead of solid-liquid-solid) at different temperatures.
Another interesting thing...water (ice) is one of a very, very few materials where the solid form is less dense than the liquid form. We never think about the fact that ice floats in our drink, but overall, it's very rare. It happens because the charge of the particles (one Oxygen and 2 hydrogen) means that the water molecule, rather than being a straight line, ends up looking like deadmaus:
so it has a polarity, one end is positively charged, one end negative. In the liquid form, the charges can intermingle, and the molecules can get nice and close. However, when it settles into the crystalline structure of a solid (ice), the charges on the molecules force each other apart a little, making the solid less dense than the liquid. If this weren't the case, the impact on life forming would be huge...lakes might freeze solid in the winter because it would freeze and sink to the bottom, exposing new water to freeze again.
Yes, I'm a nerd.
All we have learned so far is that Superman could "melt" a cube of ice by applying great pressure with his super strength but Batman would have to melt it by raising it's temperature. Nerds!
See, even that wouldn't be possible with another material....in most cases, applying great pressure (if temperature stays constant) would tend to create solids.
Dangit, did it again....
Isn't plasma a fourth state that we just never talk about because it's rare or really hard to get?
(I'll nerd along with you 00)
(I'll nerd along with you 00)
Yes...rare here, it's common in the open universe where gravity being so low causes extremely low pressures.
Sad to say, I'm going to be dumping out a bunch of beer over the next while. I used to homebrew before the kiddos, but haven't brewed since little00 was born (although I have done wine and cider, which don't require a whole morning to do the boil). But, I have probably 7-8 cases that I had squirrelled away from back in the day. The other night, got to thinking that it's all over 5 years old, I should drink it, or dump it. Homebrew *can* last a lot longer than commercial beer, with the active yeast still in the bottle, it can clean up any of the off flavors as long as there's not bacteria in there as well (then you end up with malt vinegar), so I need to test and dump any that aren't any good anymore. I found one that was sour last night, but did find some that were good, even some that I really liked when I made them, but didn't know I had any left. Bourbon barrel porter, Schwarzbier, Sweet tea ale...
I start brewing again, you're off the list. I'll just smile politely and say "Sorry, this beer is for nerds that can brew".
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Probably has something to do with the gravity and carbonites, and molecules and etc.
Speaking of viscosity...you guys ever seen ferromagnetic fluid?
[video=youtube;WXvar-4M6VA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXvar-4M6VA[/video]
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