Comments | momomoto: Being Superman might help in a situation like this

momomoto

Being Superman might help in a situation like this

May 16, 2006 19:04

Got a lovely letter dropped in my mail slot this evening. Here it is, in a more-or-less verbatim state:

We will be in your suite between the hours of 8:01AM and 8:00PM on 5/18/2006 for the purpose of conducting repairs. We will be removing your old fridge and installing a new one ( Read more... )

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tinymurders May 16 2006, 23:59:18 UTC

My ice cubes do that too! People don't believe me that my ice cubes "go bad"....is that really the scientific term for it? Sublimation?

momomoto May 17 2006, 02:08:31 UTC

If by "go bad" you mean "change states from solid to gas without making a stop at liquid first", then you bet your bippy it's sublimation!

Although I will admit that I'm not sure why it happens in my fridge and not in other ones I've had in the past. Maybe it's really dry

tinymurders May 17 2006, 02:45:39 UTC

Oh, is that really what's going on in the fridge when I'm not looking?! So cool! I didn't even know that was possible! Man, things I didn't learn in science class...I'm such an arts student.
What other substances do this? What are the required conditions?

momomoto May 17 2006, 10:49:53 UTC

It's funny you ask what else does it, because I was trying to think of answers to give before posting and then gave up for a bit. (Although my text book says that water sublimates only at really low pressures, Wikipedia says that the dryness of the air caused by frost-free freezers is what does it to our poor ice.)

The one that comes to mind first is dry ice, since it goes from solid carbon dioxide directly to gas. And dye-sublimation printers are called that because they take solid ink blocks and vapourize them for deposition onto your favourite mug or piece of paper (or mug shaped like a piece of paper.)

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patros May 17 2006, 02:00:31 UTC

There are few situations in which being superman would not help. Kryptonite exposure, for example.

momomoto May 17 2006, 02:09:11 UTC

Bah; I'd just freeze the guy with my freeze-eyes. Or spin the world backwards so that he was never born?

christom May 17 2006, 15:50:14 UTC

The only thing that would do is confuse alot of Australians. Also shrinking probably will not make time go faster..shucks.