Fake the Board (3)

[Theofilus]

Not since I crossed the Greenland Ice Cap on foot a couple of years ago.

Have you seen a volcano?

 

[EastChief]

Yeah, my boss erupts just about every day!

Do you like fast food?

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

Only when I can catch it.


Do you use a slow cooker?

 

[Theofilus]

No, mine's pretty fast.

Do you use the Internet a lot?

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

Yes, but mine doesn't cook very well.


Do you use a dictionary?

 

[PassionateWorshipper]

Fro hwat?

How many times must I tell you?

 

[Theofilus]

1384 times

What's your favorit?

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

The red one


Why are snowflakes all different?

 

[Theofilus]

Because each one is unique, just like all the rest.

Why are we here?

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

Because we aren't there.

Do you like pickles?

 

[cubanito]

Because everthing is different. What is difficult is finding two things that are the same. However, the extreme dissimilarities of snowflakes is remarkable.

The really amazing thing is water. It is a very unusual molecule in many ways. One of these is that it can crystalize in more than 10 different forms (comonly we see ice and snow). Most substances have only one stable solid cristal forms.

In large part this is due to hydrogen bonding. Hydrogen bonds in water are so strong that as water solidifies it alters the crystalline structure, and exactly how this alteration occurs depends on the vagaries of the multiple weak intermolecular forces (van der Wall's, London forces ect.). As a result, the temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, incident photon flux, electrostatic ambience, impurities and several other factors which for most substances do not significantly alter the cristalline structure of the much stronger covalent and/or ionic bonds are strong enough to affect the much weaker hydrogen bond.

The hydrogen bond of water is not as strong as that of HF, where it reaches ranges near true covalance, yet strong enough to change cristalline structure.

The truly bizarre behavious of water is the subject of many books. I have tried to give a partil answer to a truly complex subject.


How does chirality arise?

 

[cubanito]

Yes, I like pickles a lot, and relish and almost anthing else made with pickles BUT I do NOT like actual fresh unprocessed cucumbers at all.

Do you pickle anything with the left over juice in the pickle jar?

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

Ummm, you can take this one, EC...

 

[EastChief]

I take left over pickle juice and bathe in it.

Have you ever been on a hayride?

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

Ok, my hair isn't that messy...


HYE been on a sleigh ride?

 

[EastChief]

Every December 25th, with the big guy!

How many jumping jacks can you do?

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

Well, if the Jacks aren't too tall, I can jump over quite a few

Do you drive a truck?

 

[EastChief]

10-4! Gotta go, I'm tryin' to ditch Smokey!

What's the strangest dream you ever had?

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

You mean like the one where I was Jack driving a semi being chased by Smokey the bear?


What's the longest you've ever slept?

 

[Theofilus]

177 cm (about 5 feet 11 inches)

What have you been up to today?