<div dir="auto">At 0.3nm, the plastic's production imperfections, at the angstrom scale + thermal agitation/ expansion/contraction.... Voila.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 8:58 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-8878601074038716407WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">What I am seeing is making me crazy. Cleaning out my garage, I found an emergency kit that is used typically for earthquake preparedness. I know where I was working when I was given this kit: it was 2005. So the kit is about 18 years old.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">In that kit were the usual things: emergency food rations, mylar blanket, bandages, Tylenol, flashlight, that kinda stuff and also a pair of liter bottles of water. I noticed that both bottles had compressed, which was odd considering the seal was intact and both still held pressure (they can’t be squeezed.)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There was clearly quite a bit of water missing from both bottles, but no way out for the water that I can see. So… I weighed them on a postal scale. It freaked my beak: both bottles weigh in at 816 grams.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></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, without harming the seal. They lost the same amount down to the gram.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Any explanations please?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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