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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Colin Hales via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] water escapes somehow<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>… Conclusion: both bottles lost about 20% of their volume from a sealed disposable plastic bottle over the course of 18 years… spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…At 0.3nm, the plastic's production imperfections, at the angstrom scale + thermal agitation/ expansion/contraction.... Voila.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cool, thx, pleased to meet you Voila, are you a friend of Colin?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oh wait… retract.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Colin I also concluded the water had to be somehow diffusing thru the polyvinyl chloride, but I had never seen such a remarkable demonstration of it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now I have a pair of 18 yr old crumpled liter bottles, both with a mass of 816 grams.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t know what to do with them, but I may contact the local high school chemistry teachers and offer them as a demonstration of diffusion.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>