Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded?
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 weeks agoNo no, dissolution does generate heat. It's called heat of solvation.
Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded?
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 weeks agoNo no, dissolution does generate heat. It's called heat of solvation.
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.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Okay this is apparently one of those things where you'll get different answers depending on who you ask (even different Wikipedia articles give different answers), but this is a matter of semantics. No matter what you call it, mixing on a molecular level will result in the release or absorption of (in the case of gases a very small amount of) heat.