| From: | Andrew Werchowiecki |
| Date: | 3 Aug 2001 at 16:25:26 |
| Subject: | Re: FUSION MYSTERY |
Hi Neil,
> Hi,
> On Tuesday July 31 2001, Andrew Werchowiecki said to Neil Williams:
>
> >> The gas inside a flouresent tube is hotter than the sun. I don't have
> >> such a thing on my Amiga or any magazines (/topic).
>
> AW> How can that be true? Wouldn't the tube vaporise?
>
> I forget the specifics, but as temperature is the vibration of atoms you
> increase the temperature by lowering the density of the gas. The lower the
> density the lower the energy needed. A-Level physics.
Hmph. I knew I should have chosen Physics at school. I chose all the easy
subjects instead like Modern History and Geography. :/
However, the fact is that the temperature is still "hotter than the sun" and
so the glass should evaporate, after which the gas shall cool down because
it is more dense?
Unless there's a different meaning in temperature here?
> Do puddles of water in the street boil? How do they evaporate?
They don't boil. You can make water boil without it being hot, simply create
a vacuum around the water. Evaporation is just the gradual tearing off of
the top layer of atoms. Boiling has this process occur throughout the entire
solution.
> AW> Apologies for bad formatting if any, stuck using a PC as my Amiga has
> AW> kicked the bucket. It blew up.
>
> Get another, quick.
If only for the 1200 motherboard, I might.
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