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To: Orlando
And this seems like it would have a "pressure cooker" effect--the volume of water expands as it heats, and with the cold water "lid" holding it down, if it keeps heating up, something has to give...

Just a question, hope it's not too silly...
51 posted on 08/10/2003 9:00:51 PM PDT by Judith Anne (For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us, and on the whole world...)
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To: Judith Anne
a "pressure cooker" effect

Why don't they install one of those wobbly pressure cooker valve things? It would have to be a tourist attraction in itself, a few hundred tons of weight bouncing around on a pipe and releasing a ton of sulphurous steam every few seconds.

106 posted on 08/11/2003 10:56:34 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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