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(With a large nod to bigsleep, please direct any buns
in the direction of bigsleep)
A chest freezer which has a metal plate (hermetically
sealed (ho ho)) on the top with metal compartments
going deep to shallow. There's a glass panel on one
side.
The deep end is for stuff that's actually
to be frozen,
to the not very deep for the salad tray.
The Mercury is in a frozen standing wave, with more
of the stuff around the deep compartments and vice
versa.
diagram
https://drive.googl...DsOA3JSQag5aeMvFcXn [not_morrison_rm, Feb 07 2019]
Standing waves in a wave tank
https://www.youtube...watch?v=NpEevfOU4Z8 Starts with a traveling wave from the wave generator. This sets up a standing wave around 0:50. Some traveling waves are seen later in the video, too, when they turn the wave generator off and also at the start of the second run. [notexactly, Feb 07 2019]
great frozen mercury wave off Kanagawa
https://drive.googl...AME-O8urVueA0-5WKDL [not_morrison_rm, Feb 08 2019]
My version of that
https://deepdreamge.../ddream/mvt05e326w0 Style transferred from this photo of mercury being poured: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pouring_liquid_mercury_bionerd.jpg [notexactly, Feb 09 2019]
[link]
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>A chest freezer which has a metal plate (hermetically sealed (ho ho)) on the top with metal compartments going deep to shallow. There's a glass panel on one side. |
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I'm with you so far, and I know what a standing wave is, but I have no idea how this is supposed to function as a freezer or make a freezer behave differently. |
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Well-spotted that entity. |
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It's a standard heat pump jobbie, with heat exchanger
to cool the liquid mercury. Mercury has a freezing
point of -38 degrees, so a reasonably good freezer. |
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And you can watch the wave. For a change, you could
put in some red mercury. |
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Are you imagining a standing wave as producing a static
slope of mercury, deeper at the cold end? |
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Sort of, but the gradient of cooling is produced by
distance from the bottom of the compartments. |
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I knocked up a diagram, with one cheat - the actuator
is sonic, and does the cooling as well, with a boring
old freezer heat pump. |
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I don't understand why the mercury needs to be in a standing wave, or how the standing wave is maintained |
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//Are you imagining a standing wave as producing a static
slope of mercury, deeper at the cold end?// |
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You'd have to watch it under a strobe light of the right
frequency to make it hold still. |
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//a static slope of mercury, deeper at the cold end// - another way to produce this effect is to mount your mercury-filled chest freezer on a handy centrifuge |
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(sighs) according to Neal Stephenson's
Cryptonomicon it is perfectly easy to make a
standing wave in mercury, Waterhouse was using
them as an ur-memory device. |
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Imagine a plastic pipe with contacts at various
intervals on the inner top surface. At the end of the
pipe there was a loud-speaker. |
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By modulation of the sound waves, the top of the
wave would touch the contact (call is a one) and a
wave that did not touch a contact (call it a zero). |
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Feel free to have a go at Neal Stephenson if he was
just bullshitting. |
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YeahI still think you misunderstand what a standing wave
is. See [link] |
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Yes, I finally do realise that a standing wave actually
goes up and down. |
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So why isn't it called a "going up and down wave in the
same place" I know it doesn't exactly trip off the
tongue... |
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Ok, minor edit, the title is "A frozen standing wave of
Mercury chest fridge". |
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Forget the 'wave' just create the mercury container to hold whatever shape you want it to maintain. |
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[2 fries] ...ruining everything with your simple, practical suggestions! |
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That's why I must only use my powers for good. <stands and waves mercurially> |
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I was going for an other herm- pun but I could only
find Hermaphroditus, the son of Hermes and
Aphrodite. It's all Greek to me. |
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NB, 0ne great frozen mercury wave off Kanagawa
image. Link |
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