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Solving a Mystery Behind the Deadly ‘Tsunami of Molasses’ of 1919
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| NOV. 26, 2016
| ERIN McCANN
Posted on 11/26/2016 8:17:37 AM PST by sparklite2
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"So, what happened to you?"
"I got trapped in a molasses flow!"
"What did you do?"
"I yelled, "Fire!""
"Why did you yell 'fire?'"
"You think anybody would come if I yelled, "Molasses"?"
To: sparklite2
To: sparklite2
Commemorated by the Undead Thread with a keyword “Molasses miasma”
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:22:33 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Darksheare
That is a lot of molasses. For perspective an olympic size competition pool is about 650,00 gallons. So at least 3 times that.
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:24:23 AM PST
by
refermech
To: refermech
Also molasses is good for rust removal. Takes a while though.
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:25:36 AM PST
by
refermech
To: sparklite2
The students performed experiments in a walk-in refrigerator to model how corn syrup, standing in for the molasses, would behave in cold temperatures. How is that science?
Tell you what, I'm going to study the Hindenburg disaster, but I'm not going to use Hydrogen when I build a scale model. It's too dangerous. Instead, I will use some other gas so that I can precisely measure exactly what happened during the explosion. You know, it;'s this kind of "science" that provides Global Warming nonsense.
By the way, back to Molasses in 1919, I've been told that you could smell molasses in Boston's North End for decades during warm weather.
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:25:58 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: refermech
There was also the London Beer Flood if memory serves.
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:25:59 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: sparklite2
I’d love to know why they were storing over 2 million gallons of molasses in one tank.
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:30:44 AM PST
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Buttons12
To: Darksheare
Also, beer saved the world. I saw it on TV. Seemed legit.
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:31:18 AM PST
by
refermech
To: Buttons12
For the manufacture of rum.
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:40:18 AM PST
by
batterycommander
(Surrounded? Stay clammed and call for artillery. USNA 65)
To: sparklite2
“What’s taking you so long? I swear you’re slower than molasses in November!”
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:42:12 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Carly Simon is so vain, she thinks we think her insipid song is about us.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Chemically, molasses and corn syrup are very similar in terms of composition and viscosity.
Molasses would be sucrose; corn syrup would be glucose + fructose. Sucrose is made of one fructose + one glucose, covalently bonded. The viscosity is dependent on the water content.
In the case of the students, the decision to use corn syrup instead of molasses could have been for a number of reasons: the cost, the smell, or the potential of molasses to stain things could all have been factors.
It is not unusual in science to use something that is similar to the substance actually being studied. As long as the proxy is validated to behave like the actual substance in the conditions being studied, the results are completely valid.
We use all kinds of proxies to stand in for human beings in medical research.
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:44:22 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: ClearCase_guy
The hydrogen flamed are pretty much invisible. It was the fabric of the blimp that was highly flammable. Bad combination there.
To: sparklite2; All
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:46:15 AM PST
by
2CAVTrooper
(Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
To: Buttons12
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:47:37 AM PST
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2CAVTrooper
(Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
To: sparklite2
"You think anybody would come if I yelled, "Molasses"?" How about "chocolate?"
Cue the Smothers Brothers.
Regards,
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:58:52 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: exDemMom
Ed
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posted on
11/26/2016 8:59:58 AM PST
by
husky ed
(FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
To: Buttons12
I believe it had to do with filling it as much as possible just before prohibition took effect. It was filled on a very cold day - the rivets gave way on a much warmer January day.
Possibly the first “Global Warming” disaster in American history.
To: ClearCase_guy
Corn syrup is good enough to study the fluid dynamics.
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posted on
11/26/2016 9:18:07 AM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: alexander_busek
Dare I say it ... “Oh, the humanity ...”
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posted on
11/26/2016 9:36:11 AM PST
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ..)
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