Dangerously cold temperature? No dangerously dumb news bimbo!

Watch the video in the link. As she dumps the water from the cup, she says you can see the oxygen being taken from the water! She did this twice this morning at 9:00 and 9:30 and said the same thing. The oxygen was being taken from the water.

Now I’m no scientist, no physicist or meteorologist, just a history major whose career was spent in developmental disabilities, but even I know steam isn’t oxygen. What she’s demonstrating is the same principle that causes clouds and fog to form, dew and frost to settle on the grass and steam to block the mirror when you take a hot shower. Water vapor is condensing from gas to liquid.

Steam.

I double checked online, and you can, indeed, separate oxygen from water, but you need to heat the water to 286 degrees F.

 

Well on thing is for sure it is deffinately dangerously cold. Today I walked into work and while I was there the alarm for the unit next door went off. A few minutes later I had a ton of water all over my floor. To make a long story short a pipe froze and then burst in the unit next door and within minutes the unit next door was totally flooded. The water made its way into my cafe and into two other units in the building. Thank god I was there to shut off the main water to the building or else the damage would have been much much worse. Sunday everyone other tenant there is closed except for me. So be careful everyone.

 

in the words of mr henley,
got the bubble headed bleach blond, comes on at 5...


Al,
water is stable with temperature, "dry steam" which is water vapor is routinely heated to over a thousand degrees in power plants before it is fed into a steam turbine.

it takes a remarkable amount of energy to dissociate oxygen along with some free electrons as in electrolysis.

 

The common use of the word "steam" has lead people to really forget high school science. There are good definitions for "steam" and "water vapor" but neither of those have anything to do with the oxygen coming out of the water.

She really is extraordinarily dumb.

 

Yesterday the people at the MT. Washinton Weather Observatory (-33) used a child's toy to blow bubbles. piece of plastic with a 1' ring at one end. The bubble froze before it could pop. TV showed a frozen bubble in the gloved hand of someone. Pretty neat!!

 

^ Now thats dangerously cold!