Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.ksi.ne.jp!Q.T.Honey!newsfeed.rim.or.jp!newsfeed2.kddnet.ad.jp!out.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!nwrddc03.gnilink.net.POSTED!05c4ec6b!not-for-mail From: Kevin Wayne Williams User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: ja,en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: water steamer gadgets References: <3edeea08_2@news.uncensored-news.com> <3EDF1968.7090001@hotmail.com> <3edfd4fd_7@news.uncensored-news.com> <3EDFD68E.DAD0DF30@po.cwru.edu> In-Reply-To: <3EDFD68E.DAD0DF30@po.cwru.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 04:20:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.130.93.81 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc03.gnilink.net 1054873234 68.130.93.81 (Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:20:34 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:20:34 EDT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:704 Curt Fischer wrote: > > Rindler Sigurd wrote: > >>Declan Murphy bewilderedly mumbled: >>>What is the difference b/w mist and gas? >> >>Not very scientific... but mist consists of very small particles of water >>that float in the air at lower temperatures. Gas would be electrolyzed water >>at molecular size (hydrogen gas and oxygen gas), while steam is something >>like mist whemn it comes to the particle size. > > > Your version of "steam" accords with what most people think of when they > see "steam", but the industrial and technical usage is well-established > to mean "gasesous water above the boiling point". This form of steam is > invisibible and very hot. I have always called that "raw steam", and never thought much about the implication that "steam" must be cooked or sumthin... KWW