[TheForge] Vapor/Gas (Was: Building a propane forge)

GHS [email protected]
Wed Feb 18 10:25:01 2004


Mike wrote:


> So "vapor" is the same as "gas" except when the engineers need to
> highjack "vapor" so they can give a name to some stuff involved in a
> messy, poorly understood dynamic process.


The term I was taught for refrigeration was "saturated vapor".
Your suggested usage is consistent with that term. I can see it being 
reduced to just vapor in techtalk.

Mike Graf


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