[OSM-talk] Drain socks

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 07:16:18 UTC 2021


The common use of the word 'fluid' only includes liquids.
Not everyone is a scientist. Even worse is the job of interpreting this 
into other languages.
So, yes .. avoid the use of the word 'fluids'.


On 18/3/21 3:31 am, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> Hi François,
> the fact that I slipped up on this, as a physicist by education, 
> illustrated that we may need to write explicitly "liquids and gasses". 
> That way we also  exclude, correctly, kthe third type of fluids, which 
> are plasmas, if my memory is correct.
>
> Volker
> k
>
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 at 17:15, François Lacombe 
> <fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com <mailto:fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Volker
>
>     Le mer. 17 mars 2021 à 11:01, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com
>     <mailto:voschix at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
>
>
>             As air is a fluid, this would cover both water and
>             ventilation outlets.
>
>         ?
>         The boiling point of liquid air is −194.35 °C
>         <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius>
>         Air is a mix of mainly three gases, and in the context that 
>         Martin has in mind certainly not liquid.
>
>
>     I said fluid, not liquid.
>     Fluids include gases and liquids.
>
>     Indeed this definition would appropriately cover water, air and
>     natural gas in pipelines.
>
>     All the best
>
>     François
>
>
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