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On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> 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
> >
>