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From: kscott@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Kevin Scott%Kuntz)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: freezing hot water
Message-ID: <523@ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 07:09:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 07:09:02 1985
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In article <394@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP> gino@sdchema.UUCP (Eugene G. Youngerman) writes:
>In article <406@rtech.ARPA> eric@rtech.ARPA (Eric Lundblad) writes:
>>
>>	No really, the hot-cold water effect is true. The
>>principal that causes this also causes other things. For
>>instance, wet wood burns better that dry wood. In this case,
>>The oxygen molecules in the water helps out the fire, and we all
>>know how much fire needs oxygen. The hydrogen molecule also
>>doesn't hurt any. 
>>
>>	Does this clear things up?
>>-- 
>>
>>			Eric Lundblad
>
>I have been following this whole argument with amusement.  Some of it
>sort of makes sense -- especially the part about warm water evaporating,
>and then freezing faster because there is less of it.  I havve trouble
>belieing a lot of the stuff about dissolved gases, but who knows??
>
>Anyway, (No offense, Eric) water may or may not help wood burn, and 
>wet wood may burn better than dry wood, but not for the reasons posted.
>
>Water (H2O) is a molecule.  If you burn anything flammable that contains
>a hydrogen atom, you get water as a product.  Burning is the act of 
>combining (with the release of energy) some flammable or combustible
>material with oxygen.  In the case of compounds containing only carbon
>and hydrogen, the most stable proucts are CO2 and H2O.  Water in wood
>does not burn, the oxygen atom in water is not consumed.
>
>I hope that I have not added more fuel to the fire.
>
>Or perhaps I have fanned the flames.
>
>Or stirred the pot to boiling?
>
>Sorry
>
>GINO