Questions for Callaway

["couldbecousin"]

Callaway: Why is your "ask away" thread sticky, while Odeon's is not?

Because someone asked me to sticky it and it is not an "ask away" thread.

My mistake.

I made the same mistake a couple of years ago. She hit me with her broom so I kept coming back. 

So that's the secret, then? Hitting you with a broom?   

[P7PSP]

Callaway: Why is your "ask away" thread sticky, while Odeon's is not?

Because someone asked me to sticky it and it is not an "ask away" thread.

My mistake.

I made the same mistake a couple of years ago. She hit me with her broom so I kept coming back. 

So that's the secret, then? Hitting you with a broom?   

Just ask eris.

[Callaway]

Callaway: Why is your "ask away" thread sticky, while Odeon's is not?

Because someone asked me to sticky it and it is not an "ask away" thread.

My mistake.

I made the same mistake a couple of years ago. She hit me with her broom so I kept coming back. 

I hit you with my broom?

I was exaggerating to make a point Callaway. You did think my question about Triste getting rebuked for posting in the wrong forum was serious.  :lol:

I do tend to take things too seriously sometimes.

 :lol:

[odeon]

Callaway: Why is your "ask away" thread sticky, while Odeon's is not?

My answers aren't as interesting.

[DirtDawg]

There is a term upon the tip of my tongue and I can not yet taste it.  I need your help to find it.


I would simply stick my tongue out and allow you to read it off the tip, except that one of these newbies would probably sit immediately upon my tongue and rotate or gyrate or something while you were trying to read it.

It is the word we use (well, obviously not we "less capable,"  but YOU chemistry interested well-studied types, mostly) to describe what happens when solidly frozen water/ice turns into pure water vapor without making the transition to liquid first.


I saw a huge cloud of fog from this effect in the setting sun, around four PM, creating a vortex of rising vapor directly transformed from a field of pure ice, and taking on the colors of the setting sun ...


... anyway, I was speechless, because the word escaped me and my artistic speech had to take over and satisfy those I was with in company, just before I sat down to try to interact with the forum, actually.





Enough of the time line.

My simple question is:

can you tell me the name of that simple word i should have used?.

["couldbecousin"]

There is a term upon the tip of my tongue and I can not yet taste it.  I need you help to find it.

It is the word we use (well, obviously not we "less capable,"  but YOU chemistry interested well-studied types, mostly) to describe what happens when solidly frozen water/ice turns into pure water vapor without making the transition to liquid first.


I saw a huge cloud of fog from this effect in the setting sun, around four PM, creating a vortex of rising vapor directly transformed from a field of pure ice, and taking on the colors of the setting sun ...


... anyway, I was speechless, because the word escaped me and my artistic speech had to take over and satisfy those I was with in compan just before I sat down to try to interact with the forum, actually.





Enough of the timeline.

My simple question is:

can you tell me the name of that simple word i should have used?.

Evaporate?   

[Semicolon]

There is a term upon the tip of my tongue and I can not yet taste it.  I need you help to find it.

It is the word we use (well, obviously not we "less capable,"  but YOU chemistry interested well-studied types, mostly) to describe what happens when solidly frozen water/ice turns into pure water vapor without making the transition to liquid first.


I saw a huge cloud of fog from this effect in the setting sun, around four PM, creating a vortex of rising vapor directly transformed from a field of pure ice, and taking on the colors of the setting sun ...


... anyway, I was speechless, because the word escaped me and my artistic speech had to take over and satisfy those I was with in compan just before I sat down to try to interact with the forum, actually.





Enough of the timeline.

My simple question is:

can you tell me the name of that simple word i should have used?.

Evaporate?   

No. Sublimation is the word you are looking for.

[Semicolon]

Here.

Sublimation is the transition of a substance from the solid phase to the gas phase without passing through an intermediate liquid phase. Sublimation is an endothermic phase transition that occurs at temperatures and pressures below a substance's triple point in its phase diagram.

Source

["couldbecousin"]

Here.

Sublimation is the transition of a substance from the solid phase to the gas phase without passing through an intermediate liquid phase. Sublimation is an endothermic phase transition that occurs at temperatures and pressures below a substance's triple point in its phase diagram.

Source

Thank you! I knew I should have paid more attention in high school chemistry!   

[Adam]

I found chemistry boring as fuck

[Semicolon]

I found chemistry boring as fuck

How do you know how boring fuck is?  

["couldbecousin"]

I found chemistry boring as fuck

I failed it the first time and passed with a D the second time, probably because the teacher
couldn't have stood having my clueless, lazy ass in his classroom for a third time!   

[Adam]

I think I got a C lol

I passsed though, which was all I needed at the time

[Callaway]

There is a term upon the tip of my tongue and I can not yet taste it.  I need your help to find it.


I would simply stick my tongue out and allow you to read it off the tip, except that one of these newbies would probably sit immediately upon my tongue and rotate or gyrate or something while you were trying to read it.

It is the word we use (well, obviously not we "less capable,"  but YOU chemistry interested well-studied types, mostly) to describe what happens when solidly frozen water/ice turns into pure water vapor without making the transition to liquid first.


I saw a huge cloud of fog from this effect in the setting sun, around four PM, creating a vortex of rising vapor directly transformed from a field of pure ice, and taking on the colors of the setting sun ...


... anyway, I was speechless, because the word escaped me and my artistic speech had to take over and satisfy those I was with in company, just before I sat down to try to interact with the forum, actually.





Enough of the time line.

My simple question is:

can you tell me the name of that simple word i should have used?.

Sublimate.

Actually, on second thought, given the scene you described, I would have used the word sublime with both its meanings.

["couldbecousin"]

I think I got a C lol

I passsed though, which was all I needed at the time

I just didn't put the effort in. That's the story of my whole academic career from about eighth grade onward.