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Another phase change I remember from chemistry is liquid -> gas. Is that also instantaneous? Baby punks?

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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!

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Does it tho? I bet for each molecule of h2o yeeted out of the pot it feels pretty sudden

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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.

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Oct 27Liked by Andrew Smith

Baaaaaaaby punks

Doo doo doo doo doo doo

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We sing this to Dink-Dink every day now. "Dinke-shark."

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Thank you for replacing the voices in my head with this for at least the next week

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Holy crap, you got those voices to go away?

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Oct 28Liked by Andrew Smith

It’s what I’m here for!

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Oct 27Liked by Andrew Smith

“A watched pot never boils”

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Oct 27Liked by Andrew Smith

Seems like a basic decision of “yes or no” at the molecular level…212F calls for the same it seems…

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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.

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Oct 27Liked by Andrew Smith

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.

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We punx can be a lot of things, but happy is not one of them.

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