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Mr Pseudonym

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Air
« on: September 11, 2012, 07:00:47 AM »
Is air;
a) a gas
b) a solid
c) a fluid
d) a liquid

Evidence please.
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Thork

Re: Air
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2012, 07:02:35 AM »
A fluid.

Evidence? Aircraft.
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Rushy

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Re: Air
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2012, 07:04:05 AM »
A & C

Air is a gas and by defintion a gas is also a fluid.

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air/e(ə)r/Noun: The invisible gaseous substance surrounding the earth, a mixture mainly of oxygen and nitrogen.
 
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Thork

Re: Air
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2012, 07:06:19 AM »
Quote from: Irushwithscvs on September 11, 2012, 07:04:05 AM
A & C

Air is a gas and by defintion a gas is also a fluid.

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air/e(ə)r/Noun: The invisible gaseous substance surrounding the earth, a mixture mainly of oxygen and nitrogen.
 
Its not a gas. Its multiple gases that form a fluid.
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Rushy

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Re: Air
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2012, 07:08:18 AM »
Quote from: Thork on September 11, 2012, 07:06:19 AM
Its not a gas. Its multiple gases that form a fluid.

Air is comprised of multiple elements, but since "air" can be referred to as singular, its state of being can as well. Thus, air is a gas. All gases are fluid in nature, they don't "form a fluid."

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_air_a_gas
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Thork

Re: Air
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2012, 07:11:32 AM »
No, I don't like that.

Quote from: http://archive.org/stream/textbookonweldin00vulcrich/textbookonweldin00vulcrich_djvu.txt
In the strictest sense of the word, air is not a gas, but is a mixture of gases and consists of about 23 parts oxygen and 77 parts nitrogen, by weight; or 21 parts oxygen and 79 parts nitrogen, by volume. Its physical characteristics are the same as the gases, and in this respect it is classified among them.


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Rushy

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Re: Air
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2012, 07:28:37 AM »
Well, I don't like that.

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/airprop.html

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We usually model air as a uniform (no variation or fluctuation) gas.

The also a red bolded kid-friendly picture that says "Air is a gas." I have the conspiracy on my side. You lose.
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Thork

Re: Air
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2012, 07:29:50 AM »
NASA! NASA! You might as well have come to my house and p*ssed on my kids. NASA? This conversation is over! >o<
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ThinkingMan

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Re: Air
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2012, 10:44:38 AM »
Air is a mixture of gases, but in physics it is considered a fluid, as it's mechanical properties are the same as liquids.
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Thork

Re: Air
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2012, 11:37:02 AM »
Someone throw him a fish. ::)
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Re: Air
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2012, 12:02:48 PM »
If a mixture comprises multiple gases, is the mixture a gas?
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Moon squirter

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Re: Air
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2012, 01:24:33 PM »
Quote from: Mr Pseudonym on September 11, 2012, 07:00:47 AM
Is air;
a) a gas
b) a solid
c) a fluid
d) a liquid

Evidence please.

C.  Only C.   I don't need to give evidence. I'm too tired.
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Re: Air
« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2012, 01:26:01 PM »
I don't care what it is, I couldn't live without it.
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DDDDAts all folks

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Re: Air
« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2012, 01:27:30 PM »
It depends on the pressure and temperature and which component of 'air' you're talking about.
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Rushy

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Re: Air
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2012, 02:08:27 PM »
Quote from: Moon squirter on September 11, 2012, 01:24:33 PM
C.  Only C.   I don't need to give evidence. I'm too tired.

Incorrect.

Quote from: DDDDAts all folks on September 11, 2012, 01:27:30 PM
It depends on the pressure and temperature and which component of 'air' you're talking about.

I don't think air is what you think it is.
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Re: Air
« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2012, 02:29:48 PM »
Quote from: Lorddave on September 11, 2012, 12:02:48 PM
If a mixture comprises multiple gases, is the mixture a gas?

If the answer is "no," does that make bronze not a solid?
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Trekky0623

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Re: Air
« Reply #16 on: September 11, 2012, 04:31:06 PM »
Depends on a lot of stuff like temperature, composition, pressure, and also what exactly you mean by "air".
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hoppy

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Re: Air
« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2012, 05:47:20 PM »
This thread is dumb, and should be locked.
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Rushy

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Re: Air
« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2012, 07:36:15 PM »
Quote from: Trekky0623 on September 11, 2012, 04:31:06 PM
Depends on a lot of stuff like temperature, composition, pressure, and also what exactly you mean by "air".

If it isn't a gas it isn't, by definition, air. None of those things actually matter.
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Re: Air
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2012, 12:03:30 AM »
Quote from: Irushwithscvs on September 11, 2012, 07:36:15 PM
Quote from: Trekky0623 on September 11, 2012, 04:31:06 PM
Depends on a lot of stuff like temperature, composition, pressure, and also what exactly you mean by "air".

If it isn't a gas it isn't, by definition, air. None of those things actually matter.

Which is why I put apostrophes around the word air because it's dependent on what the OP means by 'air' and its components not the actual definition.
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Mr Pseudonym

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Re: Air
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2012, 12:49:56 AM »
I was being deliberately vague so as to see what answers people would come up. Not to really down the specifics but just to say a random sample taken from any part of earth's atmosphere, be it as large or as small as you like.
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Rushy

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Re: Air
« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2012, 08:15:14 AM »
Quote from: DDDDAts all folks on September 12, 2012, 12:03:30 AM
Which is why I put apostrophes around the word air because it's dependent on what the OP means by 'air' and its components not the actual definition.

The question did not put air in apostrophes. It asked about air. No adjectives were provided. I don't see any reason why you or anyone else thought it meant anything more than it said.

Quote from: Mr Pseudonym on September 12, 2012, 12:49:56 AM
I was being deliberately vague so as to see what answers people would come up. Not to really down the specifics but just to say a random sample taken from any part of earth's atmosphere, be it as large or as small as you like.

This thread shows how FES can bicker over the most simplistic things imaginable.
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Re: Air
« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2012, 08:21:48 AM »
Air is a fluid.
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ThinkingMan

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Re: Air
« Reply #23 on: September 12, 2012, 08:25:26 AM »
Quote from: Moon squirter on September 11, 2012, 01:24:33 PM
Quote from: Mr Pseudonym on September 11, 2012, 07:00:47 AM
Is air;
a) a gas
b) a solid
c) a fluid
d) a liquid

Evidence please.

C.  Only C.   I don't need to give evidence. I'm too tired.

What the hell are you talking about?
States of matter:
1. Solid
2. Liquid
3. Gas
4. Plasma

We can ignore solids and plasma, those have their own sets of rules that their particles operate under, if you will.
Liquids and Gases operate under the rules of Fluid Mechanics. Look it up. So yes, it's a "fluid" by the definition of it's rules or mechanics, but it's a gas by the definition of it's state. So it's A and C.

Quote from: jroa on September 12, 2012, 08:21:48 AM
Air is a fluid.

See above.
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MrKappa

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Re: Air
« Reply #24 on: September 14, 2012, 01:08:04 AM »
It's the stuff which is delivered to the atmosphere from thousands of oxygen comets which pummel the earth on a daily basis.

Once the comets have bursted into a giant flame, chemical compounds which are lighter escape blast center, raining down in a gas, creating what we know as fresh air. We call this the Big Bang effect.

Afterwards, the Bendy Aether traps the oxygen comets in the atmosphere after they burst.

We can call air a gas because in the late 1600s a British scientist revolutionized our understanding of the Universe as we know it when he tried to breathe liquid water.


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Re: Air
« Reply #25 on: November 13, 2012, 10:59:33 AM »
Quote from: Mr Pseudonym on September 11, 2012, 07:00:47 AM
Is air;
a) a gas
b) a solid
c) a fluid
d) a liquid

Evidence please.

Isn't Air a Musical ?
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Daz555

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Re: Air
« Reply #26 on: November 14, 2012, 07:54:02 AM »
I live in a city - cities are polluted.

Does this not make air a "colloidal dispersion" or something like that?
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Chris Spaghetti

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Re: Air
« Reply #27 on: November 20, 2012, 01:20:02 PM »
Air is not 'a' gas, it's a fluid. Lots and lots of things go into air and aren't bonded chemically to make it one homogenous substance.
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Rushy

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Re: Air
« Reply #28 on: November 20, 2012, 01:25:42 PM »
Quote from: Chris Spaghetti on November 20, 2012, 01:20:02 PM
Air is not 'a' gas, it's a fluid. Lots and lots of things go into air and aren't bonded chemically to make it one homogenous substance.

Right, because no one refers to wood as a solid, its a mixture of elements which happen to be in a solid form. Wood is solids.
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Thork

Re: Air
« Reply #29 on: November 20, 2012, 01:27:10 PM »
Sometimes poo is solids. That's a good day.

Didn't this thread already have a conclusion?
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