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Frosty, the car window

Sometimes frost on the *inside* surface of the car’s windows is a fact of life here at the primary testing facility. The defroster grid in the back window, while typically used to melt frost, the conditions were such that they became nucleation sites for the frost on the inside surface instead!

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Consensus online is that this problem is related to excess moisture in the cabin, which considering our area has had somewhere between 157.5 – 226 ” this season (70″ difference? yup, that bugs me), tracked in snow and wet carpets is a likely culprit.

Quantitative Analysis of Shaking Time in a Martini

When making a martini, shaking with ice is a common technique to mix the ingredients. This has two easily measurable effects. The first is that the martini is cooled by the melting of ice. The second is that this melting dilutes the martini. The melting of ice seems to occur even if the gin and the ice are the same temperature initially.

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