Decomposition

draqon said:
People like to be heard, anything including ridiculous nonsense works as well...because life is boring...and when the slow ticking time finally hits us we realize that saying normal things we all know is just not fun anymore...and so we make up gibberish trying to peace logic out of thin air, because...because...we are bored and we want to be heard. Enmos, you do understand that, don't you?
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No.. sorry.

Pluto here isn't in search of a comedian, he asked for answers.
 
draqon said:
All materials decay...Enmos...First law of thermodynamics.
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I asked that question so I could find out what definition he holds of decomposition.
Decomposition, to me, means organic decomposition.

You might be referring to radio-active decay.. which is something entirely different.

Inorganic materials do not rot to my knowledge..
 
Enmos said:
Give an example of inorganic materials rotting.
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no darn it...you give an example of inorganic material and a medium these inorganic materials are in...

Maybe you don't understand it...to me rotting is decay and decay is increase of entropy of the material or basically the material permeates to a greater space.
 
draqon said:
no darn it...you give an example of inorganic material and a medium these inorganic materials are in...
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You've already had one: solids in a vacuum.
Say a lump of iron.
Why does that "rot"?
 
You've just stated that rotting is decay and decay is rotting.
Why and how does the iron "decay"?
 
Oli said:
You've just stated that rotting is decay and decay is rotting.
Why and how does the iron "decay"?
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In this hypothetical situation were is iron located? If iron of mass 1 kg is located in space and there is nothing else in space than over millenia of time the molecules of iron will dissintegrate as the rotating electrons around the atoms of iron will loose their energy and go to a lower state.
 
because the second law of thermodynamics state that no process is 100% efficient...and since such is true electrons cannot move around the atom forever without loosing energy to satisfy this law.
 
draqon said:
In this hypothetical situation were is iron located? If iron of mass 1 kg is located in space and there is nothing else in space than over millenia of time the molecules of iron will dissintegrate as the rotating electrons around the atoms of iron will loose their energy and go to a lower state.
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what's lower than iron?
 
draqon said:
In this hypothetical situation were is iron located? If iron of mass 1 kg is located in space and there is nothing else in space than over millenia of time the molecules of iron will dissintegrate as the rotating electrons around the atoms of iron will loose their energy and go to a lower state.
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Lower state?
Than iron?
 
either way...it will all fall apart to protons, electrons, neutrons...and perhaps even farther apart to muons, quarks...

But in real universe thats not what happens...in real universe things collapse onto themselves because there is not just 1kg of iron present in the universe...but lots of matter...
 
draqon said:
well before I answer it, give me your difinition of "rot" or "rotting".
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Draqon, decomposition implies loss of structure.
In biology this means loss of organic structure.
In chemistry this means separation into constituents by chemical reaction.
Mostly though, when using the word "decomposition", organic decomposition is meant.
Rotting is the process of organic decomposition by means of micro-organism and the organic objects own chemical processes and enzymes.

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Draqon, you are confusion mere chemical reactions with organic decomposition.
 
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