Originally Posted By: paul
Kallog
it doesnt matter how you word it.

Yep. As long as we all understand each other. Which I think we surely do because this is such a simple phenomenon that we've all done with a rubber duck in the bath when we were a kid.

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when its time to turn the cards its density that wins.

Not on the ISS it doesn't. No gravity = no bouyancy.

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in this situation the pressure gradient you speak of is negligible or
non existant.

No, the pressure gradient is constant and non-negligible. That's where the force comes from in the first place. The downward force on top is less than the upward force at the bottom, so the thing get a net upward force. Without that difference there's no buoyancy. Equally of course without a density difference in the two things, there's no buoyancy either, when you define buoyancy to include the object's own weight. Different colored rhinoseroses.


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and to try to continue our discussion if a HHO cell is at the bottom of the 10 ft pipe
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and less at -50 kPa guage pressure.


Yep. Can you describe this whole new system?


Last edited by kallog; 05/03/10 10:33 AM.