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i thought that the cave tempreture is the same throughout a cave apart from the entrence were there is normally a breeze?
Peter Burgess said:I suppose the point I was trying to make was that there might be more temporary fluctuations from the norm in localised parts of caves due to extreme weather. And that during those temporary fluctuations, the equilibrium between carbon dioxide content of water and air might be upset, resulting in some of it coming out of solution and collecting in stagnant parts of the cave. Like you see air bubbles coming out of tap water if you leave it to stand in a glass for a few minutes.
Peter Burgess said:I think you will find it is air. Actually, oxygen-enriched, as oxygen is more soluble in water than nitrogen. Despite the smell you get from tap water, there is virtually no chlorine in tap water - the smell is from some harmless complex chlorine compound I seem to recall, that forms when water is chlorinated.
emgee said:Peter Burgess said:I think you will find it is air. Actually, oxygen-enriched, as oxygen is more soluble in water than nitrogen. Despite the smell you get from tap water, there is virtually no chlorine in tap water - the smell is from some harmless complex chlorine compound I seem to recall, that forms when water is chlorinated.
There's enough to kill tropical fish. Which is where I heard it was chlorine.
No I cannotPeter Burgess said:But can you provide a explanation why you think this happens?
whitelackington said:No I cannotPeter Burgess said:But can you provide a explanation why you think this happens?
perhaps this is where the U.B.S.S. come in?
Peter Burgess said:all just nonsense, and a big heap of rantings, and none of it posted with any careful consideration or logic
cap 'n chris said:But that's a natural process. Unless, of course, people are aliens.