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Re: Hot Paper?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:31:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, David Martineau writes:
> > What would happen if you had a sheet of paper in a vacuum and heated it to
> > 500 degrees F?
> > Well being in a vacuum I know it won't burn. My guess is that nothing will
> > happen but I could be wrong.
> 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?
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 sunward face of
Mercury is hot enough to boil lead.
Dave!
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| (...) 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-- (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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