wirebender
Senior Member
I've given you the basic chemical references for the heat retention capabilities of this element. Which like any element has the ability to conduct or convect heat. In addition, it can absorb radiation at specific points in the spectrum and RETAIN energy in the form of heat. Not an element in the periodic chart that doesn't do this TO SOME EXTENT..
Sorry guy, but your belief that CO2, or any gas other than water vapor can trap and retain heat is misplaced. You didn't prove your case at all.
If I hold a piece of dry ice in my hand or place it in the microwave -- what the hell happens? Two different methods --- same result. CO2 converts from solid to gas. One method thru thermodynamic conduction the other thru EM radiation. MIght even transit thru a liquid phase at certain volumes and pressures.
The fact remains That CO2 didn't get to be dry ice in the open atmosphere. Water is the only substance known to man that can change to all three phases in the open atmosphere. It is the only gas in the atmosphere that can actually retain heat precisely because it can change to all three phases in the open atmosphere
Not some esoteric atmospheric experiment or fishtank revelation -- just basic CHEMISTRY or science.... If I'm wrong -- for your efforts --- I will forever and always refer to you as SIR WireBender..
I have already and yet, you do not address me as sir. You failed at our last exchange dipping to the point that you actually expected to get paid to prove a point that you could not prove.