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What is the sound when you boil water?

 
 
Reply Wed 17 Dec, 2014 10:13 pm
If you put a kettle on a high flame, it makes something of a roar. What exactly causes the sound?
 
fresco
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 12:46 am
@Banana Breath,
It's caused by the spiritual manifestation of the British Lion reminding you that steam power was fundamental to the ascendancy of the British Empire, despite the fact that the tea break was instrumental in its fall !
Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 01:29 am
@Banana Breath,
The sound is of rapidly expanding metal as you realise that you forgot to put any water in it.
knaivete
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 02:16 am
@Banana Breath,
Quote:
If you put a kettle on a high flame, it makes something of a roar. What exactly causes the sound?


Waves.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound




Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 02:29 am
@knaivete,
Waves.



(probably the coolest song in a long time)

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saab
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 03:16 am
When the water starts to boil my kettle starts to whistle. Why?
Banana Breath
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 06:32 am
@saab,
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When the water starts to boil my kettle starts to whistle. Why?

Seven dwarves envy.
http://i60.tinypic.com/avn22p.jpg
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 06:46 am
@Lordyaswas,
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 06:53 am


my fvorite:
engineer
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 07:08 am
@Banana Breath,
When you put cold water on a hot burner, you get nucleate boiling (small bubbles forming on the bottom surface of the kettle) but the bulk liquid is still cold, so the bubbles form, rise up and collapse as they cool off. That is what gives you that characteristic sound.
maxdancona
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 07:41 am
@engineer,
Engineer´s answer is correct, and yet someone thumbed him down. Apparently answering questions correctly is frowned upon here...
Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 07:43 am
@maxdancona,
Agreed. Shall we both up thumb him, max?


Here we go.....
maxdancona
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 07:48 am
@Lordyaswas,
Not now... that would make my post look foolish! I don´t think Engineer cares, and I am trying to make the point.

I shall now have to thumb him down myself to counteract Lordy.
Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 07:58 am
@maxdancona,
Can one extract one's thumb when it is already up someone?
bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 08:03 am
@Lordyaswas,
All depends how experienced with thumbs that someone else is.
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Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 08:08 am
Now I'm scoring more than engineer!...... and he is the only one who knows what he is talking about.

Do you think I will win that red ribbon thingy now?
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Banana Breath
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 08:19 am
@bobsal u1553115,

Oh, the humanity.
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maxdancona
 
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Reply Thu 18 Dec, 2014 03:25 pm
@Lordyaswas,
That's a good question, Lordy. I don't know.

But I do know that in real life we have two thumbs.
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Chumly
 
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Reply Wed 24 Dec, 2014 07:10 pm
@fresco,
fresco wrote:
It's caused by the spiritual manifestation of the British Lion reminding you that steam power was fundamental to the ascendancy of the British Empire, despite the fact that the tea break was instrumental in its fall!
Excellent humors :-)
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