No no, dissolution does generate heat. It's called heat of solvation.
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Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 weeks agoExactly, beside one techniallity:
The process of fart mixing into ambient air generates heat.
No, it does not generate heat. It carries a portion of heat from the body and transports it into the ambient air in the room. Almost simultaneously, an equivalent amount of air leaves the room to the outside. The increased heat of the air yields into an increased temperature in the room.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is not happening here. There is no solution, everything is a gas.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Yeah solutions can have any phase of solute and any phase of solvent. The most common example of a solution of gases is the air, so yeah.
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No. Gas in gas can not be a solution. The solvent must be a solid or liquid.
chocrates@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Is it any different from hot air exhaled from your lungs?
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Not much, except the pressure involved is different and flatus contains more methane, carbon oxides and fancy molecules than the air we in- and exhale usually does.
dgdft@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The act of mixing is an exothermic chemical process that does in fact explicitly generate heat. You can read up here if curious: en.wikipedia.org/…/Enthalpy_change_of_solution
I have a degree in physics and work in biomed R&D. I am a qualified fart scientist — this is what I live for.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
But isn’t there some contribution from the delta in pressure?
dgdft@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, you’re right — there would be some cooling from pressure release.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Qualifies mixing of gases as dissolution?
dgdft@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In a nutshell, the bonds in question are intermolecular forces, not bonds between atoms within a molecule.
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Still not a solution.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Of course. Otherwise this would qualify as a chemical reaction.
I’d totally get it, if were taking about lets say vaporising of perfume or fuel. There, the bonding forces between the molecules of the liquid (van der Waals, H-bridges) are released, and thus stored energy is set free.