I googled it.

Interesting fact, red psychologically induces hunger. That's why so many restaurants use red in advertising.

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I'm not sure that it would unless somehow it was ground up and even then it would still be glass.

I had to google it though,

Glass is Sparta.

Glass made in the last few hundred years is very stable and won't break down like ancient glass will, but even then consider that there are obsidian deposits billions of years old on earth. Over time, alkali ions from soda ash used in glass production will leach out and be replaced with hydrogen, but it still keeps its shape and all it means is that archaeologists of the future will have to handle and store it carefully.

I don't care if it's hermetically sealed in shrink wrap, I never drink any beverage found outside.

What does hermetically mean?

Hermetic seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The word hermetic comes from the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth; this figure was also a mythological alchemist known as Hermes Trismegistus. The latter has two books attributed to him, the Emerald Tablet and the Corpus Hermeticum. He was believed to possess a magic ability to seal treasure chests so that nothing could access their contents.

How come it so hard to find those select people who use, and can distinguish the difference between, DUI and DWI correctly?

First off, I don't much care how, why or what you refer to as a person who was caught 'drinking and driving', but it's just weird that so many people can get tripped up and swear that DWI is the correct way to go, no alternatives. I know this is a question that does not have a definitive right or wrong answer, so the followup:

"A DUI to me is ___ ; on the other hand, a DWI is ___."



I'm actually pondering if I can recall this discussion from a years' past thread, as I'm not all too uncertain this might have already been proposed before.
What is your take?

I keep forgetting that this is a really convenient thread to (possibly) obtain a quick answer for my thought of the moment, but then when I remember about it again, I lose my train of thought.

So, with how late I am to everything, I'll ask: is it futile of me to still hold onto the notion that I can still interact with members in the old shadowfire chat room, or should I just abandon hope that will be revived?

Question about condensation: if a can or a glass or a bottle, whatever it may be, is "sweating" the contents of whatever very cold liquid is inside on a warm day, (or even at room temperature) are the beads always pure H2O? basically, what I'm asking is if I'm enjoying a cool glass of milk, is the condensation of what forms on the outside of the glass water, or is it actualy diluted milk?

When the milk in your glass evaporates, it is essentially being distilled. Heat breaks the hydrogen bonds, converting water from a liquid to a gaseous state. This separates the water from everything else and sends it in to the atmosphere.

Long story, short; The condensation is always water. When a glass is filled with a liquid that is cooler than the surrounding air temperature, the gaseous moisture (water) in the atmosphere condenses in to a liquid form and accumulates on the outside of the glass via an exothermic reaction.

Many thanks for the functionally appropriate and concise definition of the chemistry at work there, Walt.

I know I could've easily looked it up, but it's better to ask someone who might know it offhand, than it is to appease one's own mania for trivial and random knowledge.

There's the nagging question I have had for years, which is part urban myth, part retold layman's scientifics, but the thing is: has anyone here heard, or done, the experiment of eating an apple or an onion with your nose plugged?

There's this sort of chemical or enzyme that is said to be in both edible natural byproducts (as well as potatoes, they say) and if eaten by a person devoid of their sense of smell, they would taste exactly alike. I've tried it, to no avail, if only becuase I don't believe I can entirely shut off my working sense of smell, therefore, I would know which fruit or veggie I'm eating; so is there a trick to it? Do I have to plug my nose for, say 10, minutes, before the remants of taste/smell correlation are significantly dimished enough to embark on said experiment? Does it what matter what type of these fruits/vegetables I pick out?

If this even gets two replies, I think we should try this out with the following:
1 red apple
1 red onion
1 red potato
4 earplugs and/or giant cottonballs, carefully wedged up into thine nose
wait ten minutes
eat
optional: blindfold

Here's a quick reference point for any to indulge in:
apple onion taste same

A noseclip should do the trick.

The tongue can only taste sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and perhaps umami (MSG). The nose covers all the rest to make the flavors more complex.

By noseclip, do you mean manufacturers actually produce and market such a product? I'm not surprised, but I had to re-read your statement to see if I wasn't just supplanting "laundry clip" in there for whatever reason. Still haven't gotten this experiment off the ground. Not that anyone should care, but I recently was viewer to an interesting documentary about flora and the segment about potatoes came up, and am now off-handly wondering, "is a potato safe to eat right out of the ground / out of the bag / out of the soused sink?"

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my real question and reason for a return to this thread is a follow-up query on the wonderful process that is condensation. I really am in awe of its multitude of uses and functions, (I was actually daydreaming of how to use its basic function to combat global drinkable water dearth) but after years and years of seeing it in practice, I've seemed to forgotten how most of how it comes about; so I ask, when the water beads are forming on the surface of the aforementioned milk glass, is that water being extracted/evaporated/reformed from the actual contents of the container, or is the process of the condensed air around the cooling container drawing in the surrounding invisible water vapors, which then combine and mingle in an effort to cool down the receptacle?

There is moisture in the air. Even if it isn't humid, there is still some moisture there. Colder air holds less moisture. The air just adjacent to the milk glass is cooled by the glass, and loses some of its moisture-holding capacity, and that ends up on the side of the glass as water beads.

I thought that was the case, Red. Thanks.

(also, thanks for the Amazon link to a real "nose clip"; I'm not much of a swimmer at all, so that's probably the main reason in the way that word was phrased had me thinking it was odd, as I never heard of an honest to goodness nose clipper before.)