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- From: polowin@chem.queensu.ca (Joel Polowin)
- Subject: Re: Metals in liquid Nitrogen !!
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- Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Queen's University
- References: <1992Dec11.200321.6333@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <Bz4470.4ps@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> <1992Dec11.214822.10150@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:17:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.214822.10150@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
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- >>>Go back to fundimental chemistry. Phase changes are generally exothermic.
- >>
- >>Um. Exactly half of them are exothermic. The other half are endothermic.
- >>:-)
- >
- > Really? Do you rule out phase changes in the early universe that
- > may have no reverse counterpart in this universe?
-
- <raised eyebrow> Do you have some reason to believe that the reverse
- of those phase changes did not immediately precede the ones which we
- suppose to have taken place in the first 10^-whatever seconds? Presumably
- if we do a big >crunch<, all of the phase changes would work in reverse...
-
- Joel Polowin
- polowin@silicon.chem.queensu.ca, polowin@chem.queensu.ca,
- polowinj@qucdn.queensu.ca
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