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From: "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: Eskimo vocabulary hoax 
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On 17 Mar 1996, Paul Robinson wrote:

> : water is the word for H2O in it's liquid form. 

(That wretched apostrophe again.  Must be a bigger glut of them
than usual this year.)

> It is well known that dihydrogen monoxide has three states, and common 
> names for it are "Ice" for solid, "water" for liquid, and "water vapor" or
> "fog" for gas.
   ^^^
Certainly not.  Gaseous H2O, whatever you may call it, is
transparent.  The whole point about fog is that it isn't.

best regards

