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EPISODE · Jan 22, 2020 · 6 MIN

Simple Experiment Proves Moist Air is Heavier (not lighter) Than Dry Air

from Solving Tornadoes: Physics of Storms and Flow · host James McGinn

We all grow up believing that the moisture in clear air is gaseous http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16471 Most of us have at least enough education to realize the boiling point of water is much higher than that of our ambient environment. And most of us realize that boiling has to do with a phase change from a liquid state of matter to a gaseous state of matter. Most of us reconcile this dichotomy by just not thinking about it. Some of us come up with rationalization to explain it away. But if you are going to do science you can't fall back on these excuses. You have to see things for what they actually are. There is no gaseous H2O in earth's atmosphere. Moist air is heavier than dry air. Moist air convection is impossible. Meteorology needs another way to explain the power of storms, why storms are wet, and how heavier moist air gets so high in earth's atmosphere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwSyalcoRAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dexlOvP7mPw James McGinn Solving Tornadoes

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