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I calibrate my thermometers and temp. probes with distilled water, crushed ice cubes and a boiling pot of water. If there is a swing in one way or the other, depending on what temp. I'll be closer to, I just split the difference. I also calibrate pressure gauges with an azeotropic chemical (refrigerant) by allowing it to come to an equilibrium in a stable room temp situation and adjust the gauges to match the press-temp chart.
That's all that's necessary to keep a good mercury thermometer calibrated. But I can understand how someone with your background would fail grasp that.
You should post on the C-D thread about why being uneducated is better. You'll find some cohorts there.
what is my background Church?
and I think we have clearly dealt with the reality of the calibration of thermometers.... when looking to be accurate to within a tenth of a degree....
It aint that hard. If you have a very clean and slick glass or porcelain container, it can happen. It happens because there is no imperfection for steam bubbles to form on and surface tension. Its all very thermal dynamic you know….
Rare yes, but can happen more than you might think. It has happened enough to me (I have to boil water in the microwave for coffee regularly) that I tap the side of the microwave before opening the door if the water doesn’t boil when I think it should.
If it's capable of being recreated, time after time, well, isn't that really the basis of science anyhow? Results that can be repeated?
I calibrate my thermometers and temp. probes with distilled water, crushed ice cubes and a boiling pot of water. If there is a swing in one way or the other, depending on what temp. I'll be closer to, I just split the difference. I also calibrate pressure gauges with an azeotropic chemical (refrigerant) by allowing it to come to an equilibrium in a stable room temp situation and adjust the gauges to match the press-temp chart.
If it's capable of being recreated, time after time, well, isn't that really the basis of science anyhow? Results that can be repeated?
And how often are those situation recreated in nature?
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Originally Posted by TKramar
Again, you can have water boiling in a pot higher than 212 degrees. If it's at 220, it will still be boiling water.
So how did you get around that one? How did you arbitrarily decide when it reached "equilibrium"?
By how it would occur naturally, of course. Of course there are a huge number of variations but none of them typically involve a microwave, near perfectly clean water and a glass container. Those conditions just don't happen in nature.
Last edited by ShadowCaver; 12-16-2009 at 09:14 PM..
How come you can't deal with real data, all you can do is argue words. Why can't you use numbers?
I want to hear from you as to your comments on this data. I don't want a bunch of words, I want to hear a statistical assessment. If you are who you say you are, you will have no difficulty doing this.
Superheated water--that doesn't boil--is what happens in the microwave. That wasn't what I asked. Let me ask again in another way, and see if it any clearer to you.
If you put a pot of water on a stove, and heat the water to 220 degrees...what does the water do? Does it boil? Or not?
Of course, "boiling water" rarely occurs in nature at all, unless there's geothermal energy involved. But I'm not too sure that hot springs actually reach that temperature, since not many people could tolerate boiling hot water. (There are people who don't have a pain response of any sort, but they're pretty rare.)
It'll never reach 220°F unless you mix it with a chemical that raises its boiling point, the superheated steam will. The only way the water will reach a 220°F is to go "about" 4,000 feet under sea-level.
Last edited by BigJon3475; 12-16-2009 at 06:45 PM..
It'll never reach 220°F unless you mic it with a chemical that raises its boiling point, the superheated steam will. The only way the water will reach a 220°F is to go "about" 4,000 feet under sea-level.
Water will reach 212 then stay at that temp until it is all boiled away. The only way to raise the temp of clean water to 220 would be to subject it to an increased (atmospheric) pressure of about 34.5 inches of mercury. This is about 19% more than "normal" air pressure at sea level.
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