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  • Archive 1 - May 2005 to June 2007; including discussions on spelling of "Laetitia" and version of English used in the article

[edit] Wrong chemistry reference

in “A Tea Lecture” the child learns that tea-making is “properly an operation of chemistry” and lessons on diffusion, evaporation, and condensation follow. Molecular diffusion was only discovered in the 1830s to 50s. I would be quite interested to read the original passage - is it short enough to type in here ? -- Marie Poise (talk) 11:35, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Here is the excerpt:
Tut[or]. Solution is when a solid put into a fluid entirely disappears in it, leaving the liquor clear. Thus when I throw this lump of sugar into my tea, you see it gradually wastes away till it is all gone; and then I can taste it in every single drop of my tea; but the tea is clear as before.
Pup[il]. Salt would do the same.
Tut. It would. But if I were to throw in a lump of chalk, it would lie undissolved at the bottom.
Pup. But it would make the water white.
Tut. True, while it was stirred; and then it would be a diffusion. But while the chalk was thus mixed with the liquor, it would lose its transparency, and not recover it again, till by standing the chalk had all subsided, and left the liquor as it was before.
Pup. How is the cream mixed with the tea?
Tut. Why, that is only diffused, for it takes away the transparency of the tea. But the particles of cream being finer and lighter than those of chalk, it remains longer united with the liquor. However, in time the cream would separate too, and rise to the top, leaving the tea clear...."

The reason I used the word "diffusion" in the article is because it was used in the text. Do you think it is misleading? Awadewit (talk) 18:20, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Awadewit. Nice reading. Maybe, it would even be worth inserting such an example of here writing into the main text. As for "diffusion" and "diffused", it's not molecular diffusion nor any other diffusion in the modern sense. Diffusion is a process, she describes a state. I guess, in the first case, it's a suspension, in the second case an emulsion. -- Marie Poise (talk) 18:29, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

I've just taken out the diffusion example to avoid confusion. I've also replaced one of the title pages with the tutor's explanation of "solution" above in a quote box. Awadewit (talk) 08:00, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Article??

This is probably the most tendentious article I've ever seen up for the main page, and really a triumph of the footnote writer's art. Could Mr. McCarthy have written this any better himself? Why do get the entire epitaph (it's nothing special) but not one line of her actual poetry? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.118.46.177 (talk) 19:18, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

What do you think is tendentious about it? FAs usually have a lot of footnotes on Wikipedia, by the way. It is an artifact of making sure everything is referenced. What poetical quote would you suggest? Awadewit (talk) 07:46, 21 December 2009 (UTC)



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