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Fred J. McCall wrote:
simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:

:
:>Remember owning a toy steamengine. Knew even then that steam
:>is the air version of water, while water was the fluid version of
:>water.
:
:Ah, so you are ignorant of the meaning of the terms.
:

Back off just a bit, Rand. He's using 'fluid' as equivalent to
'liquid' (which is certainly a common language usage). How good are
YOUR specialized vocabularies in something other than English?

Hint: Einar, 'fluid' means something that 'flows' and will generally
take the shape of its container. This is true of both liquids and
gasses. Thus air (a gas) is a fluid under normal conditions.


--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw

Thinking back, I think my old grammar schoole textbooks didn´t define
fluid in this way.

Cheers, Einar

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