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Darren New wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
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>>> What do you think drives the randomness of lava lamps? Pixies?
>>>
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>> Fluid Dynamics? Heat?
>
> And ... those in turn are caused by ... ?
>
electron motion converted to heat by squeezing them through a thin
filament of tungsten? Molecules of water and wax interacting with each
other once the wax is liquid.
> Granted, individual atom decay is less likely to exhibit statistical
> groupings. And you rarely have your radioactive source get too cold to
> be random. :-)
>
Right, and occasionally my lava lamp acts completely non-random. It
forms a single blob that just hangs there.
--
~Mike
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Right, and occasionally my lava lamp acts completely non-random. It
> forms a single blob that just hangs there.
I saw a laval lamp in a shop that had been left on for, like, the entire
day or something.
Do you know what a homogenous wax/water emulsion looks like? I do.
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Invisible wrote:
> Do you know what a homogenous wax/water emulsion looks like? I do.
Someone shook it, I bet.
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~Mike
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>> Do you know what a homogenous wax/water emulsion looks like? I do.
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> Someone shook it, I bet.
Well, the instruction on mine do say not to run it for too long. And,
just once, I accidentally left it on too long and it did emulsify to
some degree.
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Invisible wrote:
>>> Do you know what a homogenous wax/water emulsion looks like? I do.
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>> Someone shook it, I bet.
>
> Well, the instruction on mine do say not to run it for too long. And,
> just once, I accidentally left it on too long and it did emulsify to
> some degree.
Mine always eventually became one single amorphous blob that would just
sit there.. But, didn't emulsify. I did shake it once just for fun. That
emulsified it. Took days for the wax to settle out of the water.
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~Mike
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>>>> Do you know what a homogenous wax/water emulsion looks like? I do.
>>>
>>> Someone shook it, I bet.
>>
>> Well, the instruction on mine do say not to run it for too long. And,
>> just once, I accidentally left it on too long and it did emulsify to
>> some degree.
>
> Mine always eventually became one single amorphous blob that would just
> sit there.. But, didn't emulsify. I did shake it once just for fun. That
> emulsified it. Took days for the wax to settle out of the water.
Interesting. After mine emulsified, I just turned it off, and fairly
quickly (about 20 minutes) all the wax sank to the bottom and co...
uh... no, sorry, I can't spell that word. :-S
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