Comments on: The water multiplier /2015/03/26/the-water-multiplier2/ the art of nature Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:29:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: agatha0 /2015/03/26/the-water-multiplier2/#comment-49 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 21:35:16 +0000 https://agatha0.wordpress.com/#comment-49 In reply to Jack.

Aggie That’s Miz Agatha to you, pal. Or ‘hey you.’ I like the pressure theory of smell. Will investigate.

]]> By: Jack /2015/03/26/the-water-multiplier2/#comment-48 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 21:13:24 +0000 https://agatha0.wordpress.com/#comment-48 Hi Aggie,
I liked this bog blog – earthy and evocative. Your enhanced sense of smell might have something to do with temperature influence on the vapor pressures of the various molecules your are drawing into your snoot. Ask Buddy for his opinion.
Jack du Bois

]]> By: agatha0 /2015/03/26/the-water-multiplier2/#comment-47 Sat, 28 Mar 2015 17:16:38 +0000 https://agatha0.wordpress.com/#comment-47 Thank you, Philip. Your definition seems to be right but not complete, and not the exact way in which I used it here. Inchoate doesn’t need to have a sense of unfinished (i.e. some more needs to happen). I used it in the sense of “undefined” or “formless” or even “vague” or “indefinite.” Your question had me chase it down online but that did not satisfy, because all easily accessible definitions (from free dictionaries) added that sense of unfinished. I thought I may be using it wrong, so I searched some more in real dictionaries and in my thesaurus, and indeed, it really does have that meaning of unformed. By the way, I now know there is such a thing (oh richness of legal and financial terms) as an ‘inchoate lien.” The way I understand an inchoate longing, is that it is a longing that is encompassing but also amorphous — it cannot be fulfilled. So it’s by definition unfinished, as it were. but that may be me, only.

]]> By: Philip J. Allessio /2015/03/26/the-water-multiplier2/#comment-46 Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:55:19 +0000 https://agatha0.wordpress.com/#comment-46 Hi Pleun: Your photographs are great always are so earthy.
Inchoate a new word for me, seems to have multi meaning. How about Being in a beginning or early stage, imperfectly formed.?

]]> By: agatha0 /2015/03/26/the-water-multiplier2/#comment-45 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:22:37 +0000 https://agatha0.wordpress.com/#comment-45 In reply to Brian Holt Hawthorne.

I wish I could say I had a forest hydrology professor….

]]> By: Brian Holt Hawthorne /2015/03/26/the-water-multiplier2/#comment-44 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:39:54 +0000 https://agatha0.wordpress.com/#comment-44 As my forest hydrology professor always said, “Fog eats snow.” More water multiplier! Foggy days melt huge amounts of snow. When the water vapor (gas phase) in the air condenses out into water droplets (liquid phase), that phase transition releases a huge amount of heat. That heat then turns the snow (solid phase) into water (liquid phase).

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