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Is anything ever truly dry?

  • 27-10-2011 11:21PM
    #1
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,310 ✭✭✭✭


    With moisture in the air that we breathe, is anything ever truly dry?


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  • #2
    chicken fingers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 645 ✭✭✭chicken fingers


    yore ma's.... ahh forget it.

    No, stupid thread, next.


  • #3
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Dunno

    Is anything ever truly smooth?


  • #4
    Marcus_Crassus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭Marcus_Crassus


    Gandhi's flip-flops?


  • #5
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Canada.


  • #6
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    If you have one molecule of water amongst 10 trillion trillion tons of silica...is that silica truely dry?


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  • #7
    Aoifey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    Wow, that's deep man...


  • #8
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    My martini certainly is.


  • #9
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    Jack Dee's humour..


  • #10
    Red Hand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Aoifey! wrote: »
    Wow, that's deep man...

    Thank you.


  • #11
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    You answered your own question really.


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  • #12
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    What is your definition of 'dry'?


  • #13
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,251 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Gay Mitchell?


  • #14
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    A dyson airblade

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #15
    4leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭4leto


    I just googled it and I got back parts of the Antarctica.

    Things that react with water Potassium would have to be very dry.


  • #16
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Ficheall wrote: »
    What is your definition of 'dry'?
    moisture level of 0%?


  • #17
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    the_syco wrote: »
    With moisture in the air that we breathe, is anything ever truly dry?

    Dry ice.


  • #18
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    4leto wrote: »
    I just googled it and I got back parts of the Antarctica.
    I was going to mention something like that: the colder air gets, the less moisture it can carry before it condenses out of the air. People in really cold climates have to protect their skin or suffer from dryness and related problems.

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  • #19
    Capt'n Midnight
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    4leto wrote: »
    I just googled it and I got back parts of the Antarctica.
    the air there is so dry (katabatic wind and all that) that when they looked at the grains in the soil they looked like they hadn't been disturbed by rain within the last two million years.

    So pretty dry.


    Things like sulphuric acid are fairly dry. If you add a sugar cube to it you will be left with a lump of carbon after it's sucked all the water out of the sugar.


  • #20
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Wellllll, if you break everything down to a molecular level then all you need is a molecule or f*ck it, lets go further, an atom, that is no where near a liquid type of an atom thing and then surely it can't be classified as wet

    /stops pretending to know what he's on about


  • #21
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Yakult wrote: »
    moisture level of 0%?

    Hmm.. then google's first definition of moisture -
    "Water or other liquid diffused in a small quantity as vapor, within a solid, or condensed on a surface." - might suggest that water is dry?


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  • #22
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭Yahew


    This thread is pretty f*cking dry.


  • #23
    Locker10a
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,423 Mod ✭✭✭✭Locker10a


    Great thread! haha lol
    Am if you really want an anwser well i think their is zero or very little moisture in aircraft cabins at altutude ! Hence the dry feeling in your nose and throath and why you get really dehyrated !


  • #24
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    Good Friday and Christmas Day. . .


  • #25
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    A fresh warm towel out of the hot-press is the driest object in the known Universe.


  • #26
    vampire of kilmainham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    my ass is dry..........No really it is i swear


  • #27
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    All the women in those ads for STs and deodorants. At least the ads promise they stay dry, and advertising doesn't lie, does it?:D:D


  • #28
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    the air there is so dry (katabatic wind and all that) that when they looked at the grains in the soil they looked like they hadn't been disturbed by rain within the last two million years.

    So pretty dry.


    Things like sulphuric acid are fairly dry. If you add a sugar cube to it you will be left with a lump of carbon after it's sucked all the water out of the sugar.

    and where can i get this sulphuic acid? can "normal" people buy it?


  • #29
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,593 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    danniemcq wrote: »
    and where can i get this sulphuic acid? can "normal" people buy it?
    Lennox would sell it,
    not sure if they would sell to you unless you have a valid reason
    dissolving bodies isn't a valid reason
    I'm not allowed there any more :(


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    the_syco wrote: »
    With moisture in the air that we breathe, is anything ever truly dry?

    Most of the jokes on AH are.


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  • #31
    Chris Martin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭Chris Martin


    What about a proper chemical/biological vacuum?
    With H2O being the thing that causes things to be "wet,"
    Can we say that said vacuum that has got rid of all that can me dry,
    Provided its empty or filled with another gas that doesnt contain H2O or any water vapour?


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