Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:48:20 -0700
Reply-To: Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: STOP IT ALREADY! Re: it's Friday, she blew the microwave up
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GEEEEEEZ, Mommm!
Cya,
Robert
On Sep 24, 2010 8:20 PM, "Annie" <lsandrsn@gmail.com> wrote:
> LOL, They're all just a buncha crotchety old men!! ;-)
>
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>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hey, guys, this thread started out as a funny story about someone blowing
>> up
>> an egg in a microwave - seems to have devolved into a stupid argument
about
>> the properties of water as a solvent. It's still Friday, so you can talk
>> about off-topic stuff if you like - but this dumb discussion is making me
>> wonder where all the kindness and compassion displayed by the list in
>> supporting Andrew Grebneff's family has disappeared to!
>>
>> I might have to change my opinion about this list, if you don't quit
>> bickering and nitpicking and questioning each other's knowledge on this
>> unimportant topic! It was a JOKE, remember?????
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Joy
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>> > the claim was for that.
>> >
>> > Solvent?/ it does not dissolve rock, it erodes combined with
>> > freezing, particle abrasion etc.
>> >
>> > tell me please, the solubility data of rock in water?
>> >
>> > now do same for hydrofluoric acid
>> >
>> > universal solvent is just hyperbole.
>> >
>> > alistair
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 24-Sep-10, at 9:44 AM, Mark Hineline wrote:
>> >
>> > Golly, Alistair, look at the Grand Canyon. Almost all of it started
>> > out as different kinds of rock, weathered to sediments, deposit on a
>> > shallow seabed, then uplifted and weathered again to create the canyon.
>> >
>> > The claim isn't (or should be) that it's the most effective solvent
>> > liter for liter. It's that as solvents go, it has done the most work
>> > over time.
>> >
>> > No BS.
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>>
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