I meant getting it to boil is fast. Takes only a few seconds, just the amount of time needed to drop the pressure below the vapor pressure. Not sure if it actually boils off any faster. That's probably a function of the amount of vacuum you pull below the needed vapor pressure. That is, if you pull harder I imagine it will boil faster, much like applying more heat will increase the boiling rate.

Ever made moonshine, FoldnDark?

Slept on this and now I'm becoming more comfortable with your hypothesis and my explanation. Probably something like 60% vs 30% some other explanation vs 10% that controlling for everything actually will significantly alter the results.

It's often helpful to think of atoms as little magnets, or buckyballs. Then for a liquid just imagine maybe they're greased up well so they can flow and stay constantly in motion relative to each other. So for water, we imagine lots of small buckyballs tightly held due to relatively strong hydrogen bonding creating small spaces between molecules, but still lots of places for sugar because there are so many oxygen's present. For ethanol imagine larger balls (maybe three times larger) less tightly held together because of much weaker hydrogen bonding (this, incidentally accounts for the higher vapor pressure and higher rate of evaporation because the molecules are less tightly bound, meaning it's easier for them to escape liquid phase).

Now if we were to pour one cup of the smaller, tightly bound buckyballs (H2O) into one cup of the larger less tightly bound balls (ETOH), I can see the ETOH being drawn in more tightly by the stronger H2O, while at the same time the bigger ETOH forcing the H2O apart farther, diluting the overall strength of the hydrogen bonds. Now keeping in mind these "balls" are not really spherical, but actually more of a triangle for H2O, and ETOH resembles something like a chair or horse, due to the change in symmetry present within the new solution and the stronger H2O molecules thinned out it's not difficult to imagine bigger yet fewer spaces created for a molecule like sucrose to reside. That would account for a lower solubility and at the same time the lower volume in you expirement. Me thinks.

No but it sounds like fun!

Was just listening to the BBC on NPR public radio. They were talking about alcoholism and the causes and impact. Anyway the lady was talking about how having a pint at the end of the day was important for some as a ritual, and then it became apparent they were running short on time and so the lady tried to finish her point explaining in the US we have bars, but in the UK they have pubs which are a public house... and then the broadcast was was cut off. Public house? WTF point was she making??

I think she was mostly talking BS, as often happens

When you put a new ink cartridge in a printer, why is it necessary for it to print off an alignment page that you then have to scan?

Grew up on a farm and my father made something he called Homebrew. Made it in an old ceramic crock. Not sure what he put in it other than yeast and some sugar. Then he would tie a cloth around it and let it sit in the basement. My sister and I decided to sneak into the cellar and try it one night. We spent two nights in that cellar, so snockered we couldn't climb the steps to get out. Dad said that was what we got for our curiosity.
He also made Dandelion wine. We gathered thousands of those flowers. I never tried that one but I remember my Mom got annihilated on it. Crazy old farmers.

Because the universe is an annoying place and it specifically does not like printers. Or people that complain about them.

You better watch your back - something is out to get you.

Printers only like the happy people, right?

Heh. Machete Kills comes out next Tuesday on DVD.

I get to watch it tonight on one of those DVDs that come out next Tuesday. Granted, I already saw it twice in the theatre.

I time travel.

That is correct - Happy, complacent, dumb, and unquestioning. In addition, you must love everyone, care immensely about genomes and unicorns, think the universe is here just for humanity, and thus give all your hard earned cash to feed dying babies in Bangladesh. And after all that, you still must feel guilty about something - even if you can't precisely identify what it is.

-The Archbishop of Canterbury

I think I need to purchase that DVD. I suspect that Machete Kills is almost as good as the movie: Shoot 'Em Up (2007). An action/black comedy film, starring Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, and Monica Bellucci. I Love that movie. So does the Archbishop of Canterbury but he will not admit it in public.

It isn't as good as Machete (the first in the installment). I think that it does trump your name dropping simply because it has Amanda Heard. She annoyingly wears clothes though.

I just (within the last few minutes) got news that Robert Rodriguez doesn't really want to do Machete Kills In Space (the third installment in the series). I got this from the source that got me the Machete Kills DVD a week ahead of its release.

The Raid is my cureent favourite film.

I saw it at the cinema when it came out. I boyght it on dvd. I have now probably watched it 5 times - it was released in 2012 or 2013.

Anyone in Baltimore for the math meetings?

Ugly planes with a purpose most of us never get to see flying;



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Beluga

There are no letters in the mailbox. There are no grapes upon the vine. There are no chocolates in the boxes. And there are no diamonds in the mine

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/we...y-9066578.html

The kid actually posted a video on how he came up with the idea here:

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<hillbilly accent>huh? it wasn't like you think. My cousin was pretty....

My brunkle is pretty smart.

And now for some great music that most of you probably never heard before:

Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence
A time of confidences
Long ago it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you

So it is Friday dinner time and I get a call on the phone. Like an idiot I answer it. Saleswomen. I did not renew my Sirius Radio that I got free with the purchase of my new car. And now these yahoos are bothering me, yet again. Previously I just told the drone on the other end of the line that I had lost my job so no renewal. This time I let the saleswomen blather on just a bit but when she said: “and you get over 140 channels with news sports weather……….” I just heaved in and said: “I can barely stand to listen to one channel, why would I want 140? – No thanks”. Then I hung up.

So a Friday Night lesson that most of you may know already but is usually worth repeating: Most people are not worth listening to let alone allowing them to steal away your time with useless chatter. This does not only apply to phone conversations. And is particular useful to keep in mind when you start that response post to some yahoo on the internet (the 2+2 SMP forum for example) – a click should go off in your head –why am I wasting time on this? Don’t I have better things to do? Shouldn’t I be saving my time and energy for trying to screw the neighbors’ 17-year-old hot babe, not to mention the Mom?

It is time now for me to chug down a great brew. Then, off to the neighbors.