Please Give an Example

February 7th, 2008 , 7:08 pm

 

I was taking a ground school class for private pilots.

During the session on weather, the instructor wanted

to discuss the concept of sublimation, which is the act

of going from a gas to a solid, while skipping

the intermediate liquid stage.

 

 

As an example, he gave water vapour in the air condensing

on a windshield to form ice. Wanting to see if the class

had understood the concept, the instructor asked if

anyone could provide an example of something that

went straight from a solid to a gas.

 

He was expecting dry ice as the answer when one

of the students blurted out, “Burritos!”

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