Re: dry Meditteranean

From: George William Herbert (gherbert_at_retro.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: 18 Jan 2005 18:04:35 GMT

 <chornedsnorkack@hushmail.com> wrote:
>It takes about 550 calories to evaporate a gram of water. I think that
>water has mass for mass a greater heat capacity than most other
>substances - including rock. Thus, boiling a volume of water requires
>cooling down the same order of volume of lava - perhaps more. Who knows
>the exact answer?

Please reconsider.

What does "heat capacity" mean, definitions wise?
joules per degree in standard metric usage.

Which of those values have you ignored completely
in your analysis?

What are the temperatures of liquid lava (typical),
and of liquid water?

-george william herbert
gherbert@retro.com

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