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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (22121)7/10/2008 1:45:32 AM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36917
 
A body refers to a solid object

Is that what they taught you in high school?

I was told something slightly different. "A body" referred to some matter, the phase(s) the matter in was not defined.

en.wikipedia.org

i.e. the body could be in a solid phase, a liquid phase, a gaseous phase OR (as in the case of WATER on the planet EARTH), in a mixture of all three phases.

en.wikipedia.org



To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (22121)7/10/2008 6:00:43 PM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 36917
 
From Stefan's Law...

All bodies lose and gain thermal energy by means of electromagnetic radiation

Is it your contention that this statement only holds true for solids and not for liquids, gases, and plasmas ?