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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-04-09 11:20 PM Original message |
What would happen to a sheet of paper if you heated it to 452° F in a vacuum? |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-04-09 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well, without oxygen it certainly won't burn. |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:05 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. If its a real vacuum, that is, NADA, it COULDN'T burn, right??? |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. I already said it couldn't burn. The question is, could something else |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-04-09 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
2. Ruin the warranty. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-04-09 11:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Well, at least I'll have nature on my side |
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amerikat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-04-09 11:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. You wouldn't be able to hear it scream. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
5. It would start crying and wondering why you would do such a thing. |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
6. It would pray for death and curse the tree seed from which it sprung. |
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JTG of the PRB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:24 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. ... |
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NecklyTyler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
7. The paper would fall at the same rate as a bowling ball if they were released at the same time |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
8. I'm not sure about the paper, but Guy Montag would shed a tear. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. It's not my fault. I was at a party, and all the kids were doing it. |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 03:32 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. If all the other children were assimilated by the Borg, I'll bet you'd stand in line with them. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 10:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. It depends, really. Do they have casual Fridays? What about pizza-day or donut-day? |
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BlueJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
13. To get to the other side |
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qnr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
14. I'm shocked nobody has mentioned the Hoover repairman yet n/t |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 02:00 AM Response to Original message |
15. Papyrus, rice, or wood paper? n/t |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
17. It turns into President Obama's birth certificate. |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
18. You'd get hot paper. |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
19. In a vacuum it would suffocate. Or explode. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
21. It would carbonize, releasing small amounts of CO, H2O, and CO2, as well as MeOH, CH2O, and HCOOH.. |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 10:54 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Where would the "O" come from? |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:02 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Yes. Paper has the empirical formula CH2O. Hence the name "carbohydrate" which |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 06:32 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. But wouldn't that mean that there was no longer a vacuum? |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 12:58 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Well, yes, it would. |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 03:12 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. I guess the question then is |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
24. 42 |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 01:04 PM Response to Original message |
27. How would you get the vacuum cleaner that hot? |
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IcyPeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
28. 451...... Fahrenheit 451................ |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
29. delete: comment made upthread |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
31. Tobacco researchers have studied this extensively. |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-07-09 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
32. The question is, what would happen to the vacuum? |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-08-09 12:37 AM Response to Original message |
33. The Vacuum, (dust sucker) would problem go up in a putrid |
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