Can you kill water?
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Electrolysis. Then burn the hydrogen and oxygen. At that point the damned wet bastard 'aint likely to come back.
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I'll give you one guess what one product of hydrogen or oxygen combustion is...
No. But if you drink water three times over it turns into pure pee...
Kidneys are very good at filtration. They will always chuck out at least some urea in solution, and probably some proteins and sugars if you're not well.
What the hell is this? You're doing okay at science at school, which makes you cleverer than anyone else on this site? Don't make me wave my Bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology and Master's degree in Human Genetics at you.
TurboSmoke is partially correct. The Second Law Of Thermodynamics is that "Matter and energy can neither be created, nor destroyed, merely changed into other forms" - recognising that matter and energy are occasionally interchangeable with each other.
It is easily possible to turn water into not-water. Water used to cool spent fuel rods in nuclear power stations absorbs stray neutrons and becomes "heavy water", or deuterium oxide - the formula is still H2O, but it has in total 2 extra neutrons. Heavy water itself is used in fusion experiments - and in real stellar fusion - where it becomes helium (to start with).
And of course, going the other way, particle colliders (such as CERN at Geneva) will quite happily smash water molecules into their component atoms, and indeed further, down to quarks, muons, nuons, gluons, bosons and suchlike.
Die, water! Die!
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Just done a quick bit of pig-maths - a little on the crude side.
I estimate that pouring 500ml of water (a little over a pint) into the ocean would cause a sea level rise of roughly 3x10^-22 (3 times ten, to the power of -22) metres. That would be 0.003 attometres, or 3 zeptometres.
Lordy!
I estimate that pouring 500ml of water (a little over a pint) into the ocean would cause a sea level rise of roughly 3x10^-22 (3 times ten, to the power of -22) metres. That would be 0.003 attometres, or 3 zeptometres.
Lordy!
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YEAH....YEAH...a fat bloke down the pub said that if you drink 5 pints of water 5 times over, it turns into pure beer....
it must be true....im off to get some water.....
can we start a topic on electronics & electrical engineering?.....i have an honours degree in that stuff....maybe i will know what i am talkign about for a change..
me and famine can wave our degrees to our hearts content..
it must be true....im off to get some water.....
can we start a topic on electronics & electrical engineering?.....i have an honours degree in that stuff....maybe i will know what i am talkign about for a change..
me and famine can wave our degrees to our hearts content..
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Degree waving Might cause convection currents and remove some water vapour... But they mean nothing next to "taking science at a 5 level"...
I made a slight error in my 1.30am calculations. The oceans would rise by about 4 picometres (10 to the minus 12), not zeptometres (10 to the minus 21).
Might cause convection currents and remove some water vapour... But they mean nothing next to "taking science at a 5 level"...I made a slight error in my 1.30am calculations. The oceans would rise by about 4 picometres (10 to the minus 12), not zeptometres (10 to the minus 21).
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FYI,... you can drink your pee 7 times in a row before it will poison/kill you.
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No - it isn't. Drink urine and you get MORE urine out. Your kidneys aren't designed to filter all the water out of your body - they're designed to filter out all the crap in your bloodstream and eject it by mixing it with water. You will always piss piss - never pure water.
My me is a biologist.
But he's right about the second part.
My me is a biologist.
But he's right about the second part.
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Originally posted by Famine
I'll give you one guess what one product of hydrogen or oxygen combustion is...
Wow, I need to think these things through. I honestly knew that before I posted my response, god knows why the hell I said what I did. Chemistry has never been a strong suit of mine. I'm more of a physics person.
I didn't, but I'm going to claim that I didn't mean burn, but something else entirely. Yep.
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Yes! Just an unmeasureable amount. The ocean would have one more cup of water in it than it did before.
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Mopar - I already measured it...
Assumptions:
Earth is a perfect sphere (it's not)
Earth has a radius of 4000 miles.
The Earth's crust is of constant thickness of 2 miles (it isn't)
The Earth's oceans are of constant depth (they aren't)
Water level rise would be consistent over the planet (it wouldn't be).
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weird topic!
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You think thats bad?
Guess how much of that air in your schools hallway just came out of someones ass?
Maybe you should just stop breatheing too.
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Originally posted by Famine
Degree waving
I made a slight error in my 1.30am calculations. The oceans would rise by about 4 picometres (10 to the minus 12), not zeptometres (10 to the minus 21).
errrr.....well to be correct, throwing a cup of water into the ocean wouldnt actually make the sea level rise....the mere fact that the 100 million gallons of sea water is condensed into the earths atmosphere in the south pacific alone every day, the cup of water would make an even slighter impact that first identified...
yeah, microsoft encarta to the rescue...what other useless fact will microsoft tell you today
where did you think clouds actually came from...?.....dont answer that.
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i can just see you lighting up a joint in that room.....
spark...BBBBOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!
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