While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Tuesday, August 12,
2008, rolled initiative and posted the following:

> On Aug 12, 8:34*pm, Derek > wrote:
>
>>> Wrong again squirt. You've obviously never did the experiment or lie
>>> because the balloon in the gaseous state is less than 5% water.
>>
>> You're confusing "quantity" with "volume."
>
> No, I meant quantity. After the balloon is emptied of water, less than
> 5% of the original water is left over and the balloon is full of ?
> Answer the ?

That is a COMPLETELY different proposition than the one you wrote
previously. "[T]he balloon in the gaseous state is less than 5% water"
is not the same as "less than 5% of the original water is left over."
Please stick to a point rather than "correcting" me by changing the
issue.

In answer to your question, the balloon on the flask (we didn't use a
kettle) is not a closed system. We recovered less water than we boiled
because much of it pushed its way through the porous rubber of the
balloon. (Ever noticed that helium balloon shrink? It's because they
leak, not because helium gets more dense.)

The balloon eventually inverted under air pressure and was "sucked"
into the flask because there was less water and air in the system
after the experiment.

All of this is tangential to the point I'm challenging. Boiling water
does not cause it to "shed oxygen." Both oxygen and hydrogen are
highly reactive and quickly bond back together. That's why elecrolysis
requires two separate capturing vessels (as well as a catalyst).

Certainly, boiling water "frees" dissolved gasses that were in the
water. But their volume is significantly less than the volume of the
water in which they were previously dissolved.

>> I'm just getting tired.
>
> Ok honest confession, but are you always this tired? Somebody get him
> a doctor.
> Not enough clean air is my first prognosis.

Actually, it was just late.

--
Derek

It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any
to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.