• @Vytle@lemmy.world
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    202 months ago

    The “Gender Gas” joke has always bothered me for no reason other than because gas IS a fucking fluid.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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      22 months ago

      Gas can behave like a fluid. Or rather, the two can behave similarly, but they aren’t the same thing.

    • @A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      You’re right, that should be “Gender Liquid” with “Gender Plasma” in the far unreadable section. Gas and liquid should be grouped as fluids - is plasma a fluid? I don’t think so but I’m not a physicist

      Goddammit

      • Jerkface (any/all)
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        2 months ago

        Yes, it is just ionized gas. What happens when you ionize something in a liquid or solid state? Can ions not form a solid or liquid without some occupied orbitals?

        • Tlaloc_Temporal
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          22 months ago

          That’s a really salty fluid, or a strong acid/base. Plasma just has temperature driving the ionization, rather than chemistry.

          • Jerkface (any/all)
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            22 months ago

            Could you potentially use sheer charge to ionize something by ripping out all the electrons?

            • Tlaloc_Temporal
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              32 months ago

              That would be a stupidly hight amount of charge.

              For a very rough estimate, thunderstorms peak at about 6.7 nanocoulombs of charge per m³, or 4.2e10 fewer electrons per m³. Cumulonimbus clouds have roughly 2 grams of water per m³, or 6.7e22 atoms per m³. Thus, thunderstorms have 1 in 10e12 fewer electrons.

              To fully ionize water, you would need something like a trillion times as much voltage as lightning, and the ability to insulate the sample from other sources of electrons like any nearby matter.

              This might be feasible at very small scales, but the result would be just as dangerous. A bunch of protons that really want electrons nearby would pull lightning from anywhere they could, and would be unbelievably corrosive. Something like a pH of -23.7, although pH breaks down long before this point.

              Such a substance completely devoid of electrons would also repel itself very strongly, so it would evaporate into gaseous protons basically instantly. “Normal” plasma is much more stable because the electrons are separated by temperature rather than by electric change. High electric charges are much more difficult to contain.

              I’m not a physicist though, so I’m likely wrong on the details.

      • @porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        The top right corner is supercritical fluid, which is correct, it’s not the same as plasma, which doesn’t really fit neatly on a pressure/temperature phase diagram.

  • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    92 months ago

    If you crush me, then reheat me to just below my melting point, then quench me back then crush me some more, my microgender structure gets stretched and tensed with smaller and smaller grains. I become harder and harder until my yield strength is equal to my ultimate strength. Deep down I’m still the same alloy but heat treated.

  • @Chronic_Intermission@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Pressure: pushing down on me, Pressing down on you, no man ask for, Under pressure that burns a building down, Splits a family in two, Puts people on streets

  • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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    12 months ago

    So is gender fluid by definition sub critical gender or am I missing something (yes I know I’m missing something but I’m not telling you what)

  • @bss03@infosec.pub
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    12 months ago

    Are you saying that under enough social pressure anyone will revert to the gender binary? (j/k)