Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
What a trip. Sublimation. Interesting. I’m going to have to tell my kids. That doesn’t explain it not dripping whatsoever. It should be melting from me holding it in my hand. I did this again in the house in front of my husband and grandkids. It’s 71 degrees in here. In retrospect, if it is something man made, I shouldn’t have burned it in the house. I was shocked, obviously. I laid it out on the porch. It rained later and dissolved it .
The snow wasn’t that cold. The weather later turned into rain. It’s still raining now. That’s interesting, to say the least. I don’t never remember snow doing that but then again I wasn’t compacting it and attempting to melt it with a Bic. Anytime I’ve held a snowball, it always started melting in my hand right away. This did not. I picked up this burnt snowball a while later and smelled it. It smelled like plastic. It dissolved with the rain later. I obviously need to research this more. I appreciate your input, and u/stevethefish76. Thank you both. I’ll check out YouTube.
There are videos explaining sublimation on YT you can find, for sure. I'm sure if you just grab some snow and put it on your carpet inside and leave it there, it'll melt and make a wet spot. It's the process of compressing the snow and then trying to burn it is where sublimation is a factor.