Not really, no. Boil water and it kinda slowly transforms into water vapor, but it's far from instantaneous. That's a really good thing, too: I forget something on the stove almost every day!
Oh, absolutely! I guess the thing about ice (that I now realize I need to write about more explicitly) is the way everything just freezes all at once. I mean, it's like a contagion that spreads rapidly through the liquid, so one moment there's a huge chunk of water, and the next it's a chunk of ice.
If water boiled this way, we'd see a huge sphere rise up to the sky, all ghost like, then nothing for a minute or two before the next chunk of water boils away.
Or, at least, that was one of the points I wanted to make.
Another phase change I remember from chemistry is liquid -> gas. Is that also instantaneous? Baby punks?
Not really, no. Boil water and it kinda slowly transforms into water vapor, but it's far from instantaneous. That's a really good thing, too: I forget something on the stove almost every day!
Does it tho? I bet for each molecule of h2o yeeted out of the pot it feels pretty sudden
Oh, absolutely! I guess the thing about ice (that I now realize I need to write about more explicitly) is the way everything just freezes all at once. I mean, it's like a contagion that spreads rapidly through the liquid, so one moment there's a huge chunk of water, and the next it's a chunk of ice.
If water boiled this way, we'd see a huge sphere rise up to the sky, all ghost like, then nothing for a minute or two before the next chunk of water boils away.
Or, at least, that was one of the points I wanted to make.
Baaaaaaaby punks
Doo doo doo doo doo doo
We sing this to Dink-Dink every day now. "Dinke-shark."
Thank you for replacing the voices in my head with this for at least the next week
Holy crap, you got those voices to go away?
It’s what I’m here for!
“A watched pot never boils”
Seems like a basic decision of “yes or no” at the molecular level…212F calls for the same it seems…
It does, but it takes a long time for water to boil. Freezing kind of slowly starts happening, then it all just kinda freezes over at once.
I'll never not look at molecules like punks in a mosh pit again. It's gonna be very weird for me for the rest of my life. I hope you're happy.
We punx can be a lot of things, but happy is not one of them.