From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxx!drabik
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: teabag answer
Article-I.D.: ihuxx.279
Posted: Wed Dec 22 09:53:03 1982
Received: Thu Dec 23 05:56:17 1982

Come on, guys.  Before you pour water over the teabag,
there is a certain volume of air interleaved with the
volume occupied by the leaves.  When you pour the water,
the air is displaced from the leaves by the water which
is absorbed through capillary action and forms the bubble.
Schluss.

				Tim Drabik
				BTL Indian Hill