Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:06:57 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: STOP IT ALREADY! Re: it's Friday, she blew the microwave up
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oh goodie..
all those posts I didn't bother to read..
now I have to go see who got nasty or whatever !
as in all things in life......
some of them we won't like..
just don't open the stupid emails is one solution !!
well it was fun to be reminded of the W C Fields quote.
there is just SO much that is better to just ignore sometimes.
Doesn't bother me that 'the boys' got all nutty there for a while.
I thnk of it as 'lively debate' ...that encourages thinking and examining
things.
It's only not fun if someone gets mean or nasty.
It's really important to not take things personally ...too easy to get
tweaked out otherwise sometimes.
I always thought it was called the universal solvent because it is so
common..
and about the first thing you would try using to clean anything.
Certainly not 'the best' solvent..or even a 'solvent' per se in my mind ..
but it sure is universal !
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joy Hecht" <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 7:51 PM
Subject: STOP IT ALREADY! Re: it's Friday, she blew the microwave up
> 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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