Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > sci.physics > #538654

Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems

Show all headers | View raw

Odd Bodkin wrote:

> On 11/25/2015 7:31 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Odd Bodkin wrote:
>>> Delocalized electrons simply mean that the electron is not associated
>>> with a particular atom or a particular bond. Conduction electrons in
>>> metals drift through the WHOLE METAL, which is of course what makes
>>> those substances metals.
>>
>> That is _not_ the defining property of a metal, but of a conductor.
>> Instead, metals can be defined in two ways: in astrophysics, all elements
>> that are heavier than helium; in chemistry, all elements with certain
>> chemical properties.
> 
> And what are the chemical properties that are emblematic of metals?

“Emblematic” does not translate here.  But if you mean “characteristic”, 
then you are committing the “if A, then B; B, therefore A” fallacy 
(affirming the consequent), because not all electrical conductors are 
metals.


PointedEars
-- 
Q: What did the female magnet say to the male magnet?  
A: From the back, I found you repulsive, but from the front
   I find myself very attracted to you.
(from: WolframAlpha)

Back to sci.physics | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Ergodic Mechanical Systems Lorn James <jl33@query.info> - 2015-11-25 00:00 +0000
  Ergodic Mechanical Systems john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 07:19 -0800
    Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 10:25 -0600
      Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 09:54 -0800
        Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 12:30 -0600
          Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 10:45 -0800
            Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 13:14 -0600
              Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 11:50 -0800
                Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 14:40 -0600
                Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Lester Thorpe <lt11@thorpe.info> - 2015-11-26 01:07 +0000
                Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 20:51 -0500
                Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Lester Thorpe <lt11@thorpe.info> - 2015-11-26 02:46 +0000
                Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-11-26 01:31 +0000
                Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 19:53 -0600
                Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 01:51 -0500
                Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-11 22:18 +0100
                Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-11 15:44 -0600
                Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-12 20:50 +0100
                Re: Ergodic Mechanical Systems Lester Thorpe <lt11@thorpe.info> - 2015-11-26 02:50 +0000

csiph-web