A discussion extending from the question;

How to distill essential oils from plants?

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This image on the pages of the Still description, labels some of the end  product as "Heavier than water oil". On the web there are few references to oils "heavier than water".

But there must be oils heavier than water, we can "see" it in the photo.

It's general knowledge that a salt and ice mixture "lowers the temperature" but let's be more precise. Does mixing salt with ice actually lower the temperature of the mixture or does the addition of the salt simply lower the freezing point of the water, thereby causing the ice to melt into water without actually influencing the temperature of the mixture?

Or does it do both?

I think that maybe spicy food isint spicy at all. I mean that the taste is weaker but the tongue just makes the taste stronger. So my question is: Is the spicy food spicy by itself or does our tongue make the taste stronger?

I've notice for some time now that when I leave bread inside a plastic bag above the fridge, after a day of two, the water or humidity inside the bag or the bread starts to acumulate below the bread, to a point that you can actualy see water droplets, while other parts of the bread are completely dry and hard. Note that the bread is OUTSIDE the fridge, not inside, and most of the times the bags were tightly closed.

This certanly doesn't happen if I leave the bread anywhere else, so it must be an effect of the fridge. Could it be some kind of magnetic effect that makes the water molecules try to "stick" to the fridge, and thus they acumulate bellow the bread (where is closest to the fridge)? Or does it have something to do with the vibrations of the fridge?

Also, I leave a box with medicines above the fridge? Is it safe? Or the same effect could adversely affect them?

Cheers!

When I run the hot tap at work very slowly it looks very cloudy, in fact its loads of tiny little bubbles. If I run the water faster they dissapear. I'm guessing some sort of cavitation is taking place.

Strangely this doesn't happen with the hot water at home.

Has anyone elso noticed this phenomonom?

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fj

Imagine it is possible for a human to dig vertically down from the surface of the earth? Straight down for the core, ignoring the heat and larva etc. What would happen as the digger neared the core and how would they transition from go down to suddenly going up as they headed for Australia? WHat would happen to the dirt? Would they be standing over a huge hole as they headed past the core?

In a vacuum, virtual particles are constantly appearing and annihilating, is this also going on inside my vacuum cleaner?

Is there an effective way to distill essential oils from plants using equiptment that would likely be found in the average kitchen? or would I need to buy something more specialist?