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The equation is wrong because it does not include the latent heat. This is included in the calculation, but that is wrong because all the ice must warm up to 0C (and all the water cool to 0C).

Looking in the wrong place. It was obviously Feathers McGraw!

(Maybe that's related to the way we pronounce Van Gogh?)

In the UK we say BOGOF. Never heard the term BOGO.

Sideshow Bob had a tattoo "Die, Bart, Die". This caused the parole board some concern until he explained it was German for "The Bart, The". This allayed their fears because, as one of them said, "No-one who speaks German can possibly be an evil monster."

You may find this interesting: https://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=77729.msg283639#msg283639

When God created the animals, He said to them: "Go forth and multiply". But the adders complained: "We can't multiply, we're adders." So God built a table out of logs. He put the adders on the log table, and the adders multiplied.

In the immortal words of Basil Fawlty: "A satisfied customer! We should have him stuffed!"

Maybe a bit of an over-simplification, but: Chemistry is about the manipulation of electrons. A chemical transformation involves changing the bonding arrangement of atoms to each other by changing the arrangement of the electrons around and between the atoms, e.g. by ionisation or the formation...

No it isn't. That contradicts the previous definition.

Probability is 10*0.1^9*0.9^1.

Yes, exactly. The nonsensical result means that the assumption that all the ice melts is wrong. For a problem like this, the best way to start is by calculating 2 quantities: (i) The amount of heat released by lowering the temperature of all the water to 0oC; (ii) The amount of heat required to...

No it doesn't; it gives a negative number. If cw >> L, then Tf = 100/7 = 14.28. So I suspect you used 4,184 instead of 4.184 for cw.

Wagner's Ring in a nutshell.

I can coordinate the movements of the right hand, but not (or only with difficulty) the left. Is this common?