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| montecarl wrote:
| Avoid paywall: https://archive.vn/9xs6M
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| Sounds like a lot more science is needed. I wish ocean science
| was funded at a greater level -- and I wish it were easier to do
| research (incredibly expensive and regulatory).
| andrewmutz wrote:
| If high pressure slows down the spoilage, can I use a pressure
| chamber to preserve food, rather than a refrigerator?
| pazimzadeh wrote:
| What happens if you combine both?
| Nzen wrote:
| PV = nRT [0]. The (P)ressure is directly correlated with the
| (T)emperature. You would need to use a small (V)olume to
| balance the equation.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas_law
| s1artibartfast wrote:
| poor application of the gas law. There is no reason to
| treat the situation as adiabatic. Theoretical assumptions
| are important!
| droopyEyelids wrote:
| Yes absolutely. It's really cool.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascalization
| FredPret wrote:
| Good luck peeking in the fridge every 5 mins like some do!
|
| Maybe a pressure hatch is the answer to snacking
| traverseda wrote:
| It's called high pressure processing or pascalization.
| unwind wrote:
| Very interesting, and daring of them to taste food having spent
| 10 months in the ocean! That must have been an epic "for
| science!" moment, for sure.
|
| Semi-meta: as a non-native speaker, does the expression "a
| handful of apples" feel natural? Is that, like, 4-5 apples, or
| whatever you feel a handful corresponds to?
|
| I mean, most people will struggle actually holding more than one
| or two apples in a single hand, but perhaps that part is so
| idiomatic that the literal meaning of the words don't matter?
| Would you say "a handful of aircraft carriers"?
| jfengel wrote:
| Yes, that's fine. English speakers regularly use "handful" to
| mean "about five".
|
| As a random example I googled "handful of buildings" and got
| >700,000 hits, e.g. "Charnley-Persky House is one of a handful
| of buildings that display the combined talents of Louis
| Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright".
|
| You can even have "a handful" of non-physical things: "a
| handful of ideas" gets almost 5 million hits on Google, e.g.
| "We started with a handful of ideas that sprung out of our
| collective experiences on social media."
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| As an American English speaker, I have never come across
| context where a handful means about five. Handful has meant a
| relatively small amount, with the actual quantity always
| depending on the context of the item being discussed.
| jmkb wrote:
| To me (native English a la USA) apples are in a sort of
| uncanny valley between things that could in fact be measured
| by the physical handful, like peanuts, and things that
| couldn't -- buildings being way off the charts, obviously.
| thaumasiotes wrote:
| Context will make the difference. If you say "grab a
| handful of apples", no one will believe you meant to say
| it, because that doesn't make any sense.
|
| " _There are_ a handful of apples " is a different usage,
| which people will accept.
| [deleted]
| unwind wrote:
| Cool, thanks!
| zdw wrote:
| Never really thought about this, but I wonder whether
| "handful" also is roughly equivalent to "number you can count
| on one hand" (ie, around 4 or 5 if counting with fingers).
| eschneider wrote:
| More like putting out a platter of "Free Food!" for grad
| students.
| glxxyz wrote:
| A handful means either the amount you can hold in your hand
| "add a handful of salt", or a small number so "Country X only
| has a handful of aircraft carriers" is fine.
|
| I think with apples it would be the second meaning but it's a
| grey area. With something smaller like "a handful of cherries"
| I'd go with the amount that can be held.
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