Hey, guys, this thread started out as a funny story about someone blowing up
an egg in a microwave - seems to have devolved into a stupid argument about
the properties of water as a solvent.  It's still Friday, so you can talk
about off-topic stuff if you like - but this dumb discussion is making me
wonder where all the kindness and compassion displayed by the list in
supporting Andrew Grebneff's family has disappeared to!

I might have to change my opinion about this list, if you don't quit
bickering and nitpicking and questioning each other's knowledge on this
unimportant topic!  It was a JOKE, remember?????

Joy

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> the claim was for that.
>
> Solvent?/ it does not dissolve rock, it erodes combined with
> freezing, particle abrasion etc.
>
> tell me please, the solubility data of rock in water?
>
> now do same for hydrofluoric acid
>
> universal solvent is just hyperbole.
>
> alistair
>
>
>
>
> On 24-Sep-10, at 9:44 AM, Mark Hineline wrote:
>
> Golly, Alistair, look at the Grand Canyon. Almost all of it started
> out as different kinds of rock, weathered to sediments, deposit on a
> shallow seabed, then uplifted and weathered again to create the canyon.
>
> The claim isn't (or should be) that it's the most effective solvent
> liter for liter. It's that as solvents go, it has done the most work
> over time.
>
> No BS.
>
> Mark
>