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On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 21:05:59 -0400, Threeducks >
wrote:

>~^Johnny^~ wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:31:59 GMT, wrote:
>>
>>
>>> What's being argued here is the sematics of saying 'thermal
>>>energy' vs 'heat energy', and while the former is perhaps more
>>>correct, the later does perfectly well.
>>
>>
>>
>> It's rare that I find myself agreeing with Paul.
>> But he has a point. While technically incorrect to refer to enthalpy as
>> "heat", due to teh dynamic nature of heat, it is ridiculous to split hairs
>> over semantics, as many textbooks use the two terms interchangeably.
>
>No they don't. And it's not semantics. It's just wrong.
>
>> Even the 1911 unabridged Webster's dictionary included both definitions for
>> the term "heat", altough more modern dictionaries seem to have dropped the
>> former.
>>
>
>I stick with what the rest of the thermodynamics community has agreed on
>as the correct terminology.

Humor: - Now try and get folks to stop using the term "silver solder"
which was dumped by the alloy vendors and industry decades ago because it
wasn't solder! There is material correctly called silver bearing solder
and brazing material with silver content.

gerry

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