Warp wrote:
> Phil Cook v2 <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> 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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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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