i often forget what a much wiser man once told me....
he said Jay, it's better to stay quiet and look stupid then ope your
mouth and remove all doubt....

i wish i would stay quite more often....
J
On 24-Sep-10, at 7:51 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:

> 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
>>