This post is especially for my Texas friends, who don't know what 8 degrees (lower considering wind chill factor) feels like. And it's a lot less painful an experiment than freezing one's hair, something my family still laughs at me about.I had just finished drinking a bottle of water in a very warm building before walking outside. Almost immediately, the bottle turned into mush in my hand. Now, if I remember my Charles' Law -- Or was that Boyle's Law? Or Murphy? Burke? Somebody like that. -- cold makes things contract (except that rebel substance water). In other words, the air inside the bottle had shrunk to the extent that the poor plastic had nothing to support it.
So thanks, Winter, for the high school chemistry refresher! You can go now. Really. Houseguests and fish and all that.
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To think, I'm unhappy because Sydney has experienced an unseasonal low for February (our summer) of 16c!
16c? That's my ideal temperature.
When talking to my parents yesterday, they had to rub it in that it was 70 in Houston.
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