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Warp wrote:
> Phil Cook v2 <phi### [at] nospamrocain freeserve co uk> wrote:
>> Just to act on the dumb side. If you use a graduated beaker with a candle
>> in it, add the water, and the second beaker, and then measure the water
>> height. Shouldn't the increase in temperature in the up-turned beaker
>> create a high-pressure that forces the water out from under it and thus an
>> increase in the water height as measured in the graduated beaker? So why
>> is the level of water forced out by the high-pressure less than the amount
>> 'sucked' in by the low-pressure?
>
> I didn't understand the question.
Put two beakers on of different sizes. Shouldn't the cooling on the inside
beaker be offset by the heating of the outside beaker? (Something like that.)
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you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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