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Re: Hot Paper?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:06:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Eric Kingsley writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes:
> > Thanks to Ray Bradbury, we all know the combustion point of (at least some
> > kinds of) paper. What would happen if you had a sheet of paper in a vacuum
> > and heated it to 500 degrees F?
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> Well being in a vacuum I know it won't burn. My guess is that nothing will
> happen but I could be wrong.
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> Eric K.
Being in a vacuum, how would you heat the surroundng nothingness to 500
degrees? Aren't vacuums, by definition, a few degrees above absolute zero?
--Electro--
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| (...) Okay, you caught me on my technical imprecision. More precisely, I mean simply an evacuated chamber in which, I suppose, one could position IR lamps over the aforementioned paper sheet. For that matter, even in its approximate vacuum, the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Incident radiation. The paper may BE in a vacuum, but it, itself, is not a vacuum, it has density greater than 0. Hence paper is not a vacuum. Consider why some satellites spin. To keep their surface temperature within bounds, by allowing the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Well being in a vacuum I know it won't burn. My guess is that nothing will happen but I could be wrong. Eric K. (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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