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- From: bill@c3177208.ssr.hp.com (Bill Chidester)
- Subject: Re: FAQ? (questions about engines)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.030151.19022@c3177208.ssr.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:01:51 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.025001.18866@c3177208.ssr.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Orlando Fl.
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- bill@c3177208.ssr.hp.com (Bill Chidester) writes:
- :
- : Other fights I like to start are with statements like: "Dry air cools
- : better than humid air" (not an easy one to put over on pilots, but
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- |
- I'm sorry! In order to suck people in on this one, you have to say
- that "Dry air is heavier than humid air". I misstated the hook.
-
- : almost anyone else will bite at it) and "An electric arc is a great heat
- : conductor". Both of these statements confound our intuition (everyone
- : knows water weighs more than air, right?) but they are easily demonstrated
- : to be true.
- :
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- Bill Chidester KE4WS
- bill@c3177208.ssr.hp.com
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