[ExI] water escapes somehow

[Colin Hales]

At 0.3nm, the plastic's production imperfections, at the angstrom scale +
thermal agitation/ expansion/contraction.... Voila.

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 8:58 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any explanations please?
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> spike
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