| Re: what are the properties of water? -
05-28-2007, 04:16 AM
Dear Purveyor of Knowledge:
Please consider this an draw your own conclusions...
Water & Ice at 4o Centigrade... - 05-06-2007, 01:20 AM
H2 0 @ 4o Centigrade:
A conspicuous exception to very specific rules...
The rule is that when heat is applied to matter - it expands to some degree.
When heat is subtracted from matter - it contracts to some degree.
Exception to this fundamental rule is, whether heat is added to or subtracted from matter @ 4o C. - that matter expands, however slightly (even when heat is subtracted from it) before it then conforms to the rule of expansion with added heat.
I don't purport to know what this means, but, I submit that it means something in particular, and that, if that something in particular could be understood, it will reveal answers to previously dissolute questions, and/or introduce advanced questions with corroborating answers. That is, I think this paradoxical fact flags itself for further consideration.
Moreover, H20 @ 4o C. alternately and ambivalently occurs as liquid water or solid ice.
Again, is there not a self revealed - apparenty unanswered - question here?
If there is some elementary - or complex - explanation for this, that is already understood, request that someone provide that explanation.
Thank you.
Regards, RascalPuff
(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words. "All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus "Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein "Particles give me a headache." - Ibid |