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Subject:Re: vanagon Digest - 1 May 2004 to 2 May 2004 - Special issue (#2004-404)
From:Eric Zeno
Date:Sun, 2 May 2004 21:44:25 -0400

READ losely MY ORIGINAL POST!

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On Sun, 2 May 2004, Norm - RoweBoat wrote:

> Actually, liquids CAN be compressed, but they do not compress as much as
> gases do.  In high school we had a general science textbook that stated that
> water could not be compressed.  I asked my Dad (B. S. in Mechanical
> Engineering from M. I. T.) about that and he dug out one of his old
> textbooks and came up with a chart on the compressibility of water.  He then
> started reviewing my textbook and in looking over just about a third of the
> book had a major list of incorrect information he found in it.
>
> Norm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Date:    Sun, 2 May 2004 00:19:28 -0400
> From:    Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
> Subject: Re: Bentley A/C diagram error Huh?
>
> DOug,
>    Simple and to the point. You can not compress a fluid. You can only
> use a complessor on gases.
>