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We all know, from our first-year alchemy class, that sublimation of an element or compound is a transition from the solid to gas phase with no intermediate liquid stage. It has nothing to do with Sigmund Freud and his crackpot ideas.
But I never knew that the correct verb form is "to sublime," as in this nifty announcement from the little batwing Phoenix Lander, currently wubbling about on Mars, via the JPL:
"Photographic evidence settles the debate over the nature of the white material seen in photographs sent back by the craft [...] chunks of the ice sublimed (changed directly from solid to gas) over the course of four days, after the lander's digging exposed them."
Moar here: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/06_19_pr.php
Is my age showing if I admit that I think it is fucking awsum that this golf cart is weebling around on the surface of fucking Mars? Mars!
As Phoenix itself is wont to say, w00t!
But I never knew that the correct verb form is "to sublime," as in this nifty announcement from the little batwing Phoenix Lander, currently wubbling about on Mars, via the JPL:
"Photographic evidence settles the debate over the nature of the white material seen in photographs sent back by the craft [...] chunks of the ice sublimed (changed directly from solid to gas) over the course of four days, after the lander's digging exposed them."
Moar here: http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/06_19_pr.php
Is my age showing if I admit that I think it is fucking awsum that this golf cart is weebling around on the surface of fucking Mars? Mars!
As Phoenix itself is wont to say, w00t!
