MadSci Network: Other
Query:

Re: Why is it that when think steel bars are heated that water starts dripping?

Date: Wed Apr 3 11:57:41 2002
Posted By: Dan Berger, Faculty Chemistry/Science, Bluffton College
Area of science: Other
ID: 1017459659.Ot
Message:

How are you heating the bars? If you use a gas flame, water is one of the 
products of the combustion of natural gas. Since the steel is cold, some of the 
water condenses on the bar.

The effect is much more noticable if you take a pan of cold water and put it 
over a gas flame.

                                             Dan Berger
                                             MadSci Administrator

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