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Is ice frozen water, or is water melted ice? (Intellectuals) |
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Replies: 9 Last Post May 15 10:20am by Periwinkle
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The Raven
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I'll go ahead and say water is melted ice, from the viewpoint of ice originally coming to Earth in the form of comet material. If that is in fact how it happened.
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Bacon
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Unless you've done an extensive tally on the amount of solidified H2O in the universe compared to liquid and gas, I don't think you are entitled to say anything on this matter.
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norock
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Quote: from Moridin at 9:00 am on May 12, 2008
Quote: from MattJ at 5:16 am on May 12, 2008
There is no cold, just lack of heat. So is the natural form of H2O water, or ice? In the universe, most places would be ice. In less than 1 percent of the universe there would be the water form. I'm not saying that there is water out there, just if there was water, the natural form would be ice. So is water melted ice? Or is ice frozen water? 
There is no such thing as cold or heat, just different velocities of particles and our descriptions of them. There is no such thing as a most "natural form" of H2O. "Liquid Water" / "Ice" do not exists as entities in themselves, but as noted earlier different manifestation and configurations of the same basic molecule. 
you have a habit of doing this moridin. there IS such a thing as cold and heat. though, as you describe it, cold is the result of slow moving particles and heat is the result of fast moving particles. the terms COLD and HEAT refer to these different states of molecules. to say they don't exist is like saying "air" doesn't exist, its just a collection of molecules. You must learn the difference between terms and the physical phenomena they represent. Your second point, however, i agree with. there definitely is no NATURAL form for H2O. If you wanted to you could theoretically measure the amount of H2O in the atmosphere and compare it to that of the ocean and that of the polar caps and determine the most ABUNDANT form, but certainly no one could argue that water has X as its natural state. the third point i disagree with again. Liquid water may not exist as a physical state of matter, but it surely exists. the TERM liquid refers to that state of matter in which the molecules act a certain way to give them properties of a liquid. This semantic way of discussing scientific phenomena of yours is really just pseudo-intellectualism. Sure the WORD liquid may not be a physical entity, but LIQUID --the actual physical representation of the word -- does exist.
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11:26 am on May 12, 2008 | Joined Dec. 2006 | 341 Days Active Join to learn more about norock New York, United States | Straight Male | 4170 Posts | 7677 Points
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Wakeupcall
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Quote: from norock at 11:26 am on May 12, 2008
Quote: from Moridin at 9:00 am on May 12, 2008
Quote: from MattJ at 5:16 am on May 12, 2008
There is no cold, just lack of heat. So is the natural form of H2O water, or ice? In the universe, most places would be ice. In less than 1 percent of the universe there would be the water form. I'm not saying that there is water out there, just if there was water, the natural form would be ice. So is water melted ice? Or is ice frozen water? 
There is no such thing as cold or heat, just different velocities of particles and our descriptions of them. There is no such thing as a most "natural form" of H2O. "Liquid Water" / "Ice" do not exists as entities in themselves, but as noted earlier different manifestation and configurations of the same basic molecule. 
you have a habit of doing this moridin. there IS such a thing as cold and heat. though, as you describe it, cold is the result of slow moving particles and heat is the result of fast moving particles. the terms COLD and HEAT refer to these different states of molecules. to say they don't exist is like saying "air" doesn't exist, its just a collection of molecules. You must learn the difference between terms and the physical phenomena they represent. Your second point, however, i agree with. there definitely is no NATURAL form for H2O. If you wanted to you could theoretically measure the amount of H2O in the atmosphere and compare it to that of the ocean and that of the polar caps and determine the most ABUNDANT form, but certainly no one could argue that water has X as its natural state. the third point i disagree with again. Liquid water may not exist as a physical state of matter, but it surely exists. the TERM liquid refers to that state of matter in which the molecules act a certain way to give them properties of a liquid. This semantic way of discussing scientific phenomena of yours is really just pseudo-intellectualism. Sure the WORD liquid may not be a physical entity, but LIQUID --the actual physical representation of the word -- does exist. 
I second this. From an intellectual standpoint of course.
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