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alc24
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Tue, 03 Nov 09 11:19 PM
1 I have 10 gigabytes of music/worth of music. 2 The hot water isn't on at a max at its boiling hot, so imagine if it was on the hottest. 3 Dishwashing soap needs water to bubble./lather. if you use it dry it won't work. 4 Do the dishes in three steps, first scrub and get all the grease out than rinse and finally go back in detail and make sure its spotless. (would you use GO BACK IN DETAIL) People say "don't leave the water running, 3rd world countries don't have any clean water" I say "it's not like me not leaving the water running is going to make a difference."
thank you
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jemaasjr
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Tue, 03 Nov 09 11:48 PM
 alc24“1 I have 10 gigabytes of music/ worth of music.
2 The hot water isn't on at a max at its boiling hot, so imagine if it was on the hottest.
English is okay, but what you are trying to say is confused.
3 Dishwashing soap needs water to bubble./lather. if If you use it dry it won't work.
"Lather" is almost always used for shaving cream.
4 Do the dishes in three steps, first scrub and get all the grease out than rinse and finally go back and check the dishes in detail and to make sure its they are spotless. (would you use GO BACK IN DETAIL) You start out telling the reader there are three steps, and then you don't really have three steps. The thing just sort of runs on. "And" is a conjucton. If you want three steps you cannot have an "and" inside one of the steps and then no separation at all to mark the apparent second step, "than rinse."
People say(comma) "don't leave the water running, 3rd world countries don't have any clean water(period)" I say(comma) "(Capital letter)it's not like me my not leaving the water running is going to make a difference."
thank you ”
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JohnnyBoy
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alc24
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Wed, 04 Nov 09 01:29 AM
Thank you so much
for number 2, I'm trying to say that the water is boiling hot when the lever is a little closer to the cold than the hot, so imagine how hot it'd be when the lever is on hot.
but "The hot water isn't on at a max at its boiling hot, so imagine if it was on the hottest."
I want to know if you can say "on at a max" as in "the volume is on at a max" and the last bold bit sounds off as well, what would you say?
thank you
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jemaasjr
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Wed, 04 Nov 09 02:15 PM
alc24 “Thank you so much
for number 2, I'm trying to say that the water is boiling hot when the lever is a little closer to the cold than the hot, so imagine how hot it'd be when the lever is on hot.
but "The hot water isn't on at a max at its boiling hot, so imagine if it was on the hottest."
I want to know if you can say "on at a max" as in "the volume is on at a max" and the last bold bit sounds off as well, what would you say? (Volume is kind of awkward here, something like flow rate or the maximum flow volume would be better.)
thank you ”
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Okay, well I had two confusions. One was that I was unaware
of the sort of faucet you were using, and the other is that boiling hot water
is as hot as water can get without a pressure tank. Water coming out of a faucet
is never hotter then boiling water.
I think there is enough information for two sentences, I
don't know how you would say it, so I'll just say it the way I would.
When I turn the faucet from cold to hot, before I get to the
center the water is already almost boiling hot. I can only imagine how hot it would
be if I turned it all the way up. (or, to the maximum, to the max, up to full
heat, or whatever.)
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alc24
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Fri, 06 Nov 09 06:30 PM
Thank you,
one last thing, how about this?
- THe lever is in the middle between cold and hot, yet the water is boiling hot, just imagine hot hot it be if it were all the way up.
and can you tell me if there is anything wrong with this sentence?
- In the kitchen it seems there is an unlimited amount of hot water and when taking a shower there is 5 minutes worth of hot water. Is it because the hot tank is only connected to the shower and not the kitchen faucet. (can you tell me how this say this, Is the word CONNECTED TO SHOWER or something else?)
thank you jemaas
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Anonymous,
15 days ago
alc24 “Thank you,
One last thing, how about this?
- THe lever (Do you mean the temperature adjustment "knob?") is
in the middle between cold and hot, yet but the water is boiling hot. Just imagine how hot hot it [would] be if it were [dialed] all the way up.
First of all, just a couple of questions and some facts about boiling water. Is this a household water heater, or one of those electric burners ? The temperature control device is usually a rotary knob mounted on a shaft of a device called rheostate underneath the unit to regulate the amount of AC current going to the heating element. Higher the current going to the heating element, the hotter it will burn and brighter it glows. The end result is increased heat. That' how hot water temperature is controlled. Now that's established. If the water was boiling while the knob is dialed at the middle, that would mean the position of the knob is incorrectly calibrated.
This simple method is true only to the electric burner which has no self-regulating circuitry, and one has to physically move the dial to "off" to stop the boiling. For the home water heater, it works much the same way, except it has a device called "thermocouple" attached to the reservoir which generates a small millivolt signal when heat is detected, and this small signal will increase or decreses according to the heat level sensed. Based on this principle, the home water heater is designed to utilize this signal to compare with the dialed setting temperautre to either continue to supply the current to the heating element or to cut off the supply.
and can you tell me if there is anything wrong with this sentence?
Yes! your sentences are very messy and confusing!
How can you have unlimited supply of hot water when the hot water is not even connected to the kitchen?? You have to clean up this paragraph before people can understand what you mean.
- In the kitchen it seems there is an unlimited amount of hot water and when taking a shower there is 5 minutes worth of hot water. Is it because the hot tank is only connected to the shower and not the kitchen faucet. (can you tell me how this say this, Is the word CONNECTED TO SHOWER or something else?)
thank you jemaas
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jemaasjr
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Fri, 06 Nov 09 08:55 PM
alc24 “Thank you,
one last thing, how about this?
- THe lever is in the middle between cold and hot, yet the water is boiling hot, just imagine hot hot it be if it were all the way up.
and can you tell me if there is anything wrong with this sentence?
- In the kitchen it seems there is an unlimited amount of hot water and when taking a shower there is 5 minutes worth of hot water. Is it because the hot tank is only connected to the shower and not the kitchen faucet. (can you tell me how this say this, Is the word CONNECTED TO SHOWER or something else?)
thank you jemaas
At this point the only problem seems to be that you do not understand how hot water systems work. Most commonly there is a hot water tank and all the hot water to everywere comes from that tank. Everything is connected (or hooked) to that one tank. The reason you run out of hot water in a shower is because a shower (or bath) uses a lot more hot water than is normally used in the kitchen. The hot water tank fills up with cold water before the heater has time to warm it up, and so the shower turns cold.
Water takes a lot of heat to warm up and it takes a very heavy duty electric heater to warm it up as you use it. That is why they have a hot water tank. It allows a less powrful heater to warm the water up ahead of use.
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