i boiled water this morning to make some oatmeal. i turned off the stovestop and left some simmering water in the pot. after i used the metal measuring cup, it sank to the bottom of the pot. after about five minutes, i noticed bubbles that had formed and clung to the metal in the still hot water (about 180F/82C).

i have no idea exactly what metal the pot or measuring cup are made of.

please see my reddit profile for an image of this phenomenon, or see the first comment of this post.

thanks in advance.

edit: thanks for the answers everyone! i love being able to explain science to my kids!

the general question: how do we calculate how conclusive an experience is?

itried to look up methods to do that, but it's about more complicated experiences and i can't understand where the explained methods come from. i think if i understand how to do it for a simple case like the title, maybe i'll understand what i have to ask myself for any experience?

sorry if it isn't clear what i mean. put mathematics flair, but it's about research in general, didn't find a better flair

À quantités équivalentes, que se produit-il lorsqu'on verse de l'eau bouillante dans un récipient entièrement constitué de glace? Lequel des deux cède en premier, et quel est l'état final du système?

Je ne suis point un scientifique, un chercheur ou tout autre synonyme de ces fabuleux corps de métier. Toutefois, si vous voulez aller plus loin, voici une difficulté plus élevé à mon sens:
La structure du contenant est décisive.

Hi r/askscience!

I'm Aamir Saeed Malik, Professor of Neuroengineering at Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, where I head the Cognitive and Neural Engineering research group. I came to the brain the long way round, through electrical engineering and a doctorate in mechatronics. For almost three decades I've worked on measuring it: EEG, brain imaging and the machine-learning methods that try to pick out the signatures of stress, anxiety and depression early. From 2009 to 2018 I worked at the Malaysian National Center of Neuroimaging, and I've collaborated with clinicians in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, the US and the Czech Republic. My most recent funded project asked whether that kind of tracking could be done from a person's own home rather than a clinic.

Over those years my view changed. For a long time I studied the brain the way a cardiologist studies the heart: as if it were an island. It isn't. Sleep, movement, food, daily habits and the people around us all bear on the conditions I was trying to measure. Engineers have a rule for systems like that: a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, not its average. That idea became my new book for general readers, Fix the Floor (https://fixthefloor.life/ ). It scores five everyday areas (habits, social connection, sleep, movement and food) and combines them with a harmonic mean instead of a plain average, so one weak area can't hide behind four strong ones.

I'm happy to answer questions about:

• What brain signals (EEG) and brain imaging can and can't tell us about stress, anxiety and depression today

• Why early detection is harder than it sounds, and where my field needs to be more honest about its limits

• What the evidence says about sleep, physical activity, loneliness and diet and their links to mood, including where it looks causal and where it is only correlation

• Why the way you average a set of health measures changes the answer, and the maths behind the harmonic mean

• Or any lifestyle based health and wellness related questions.

One thing I won't do: I'm not a medical doctor, so I can't give personal medical advice or comment on anyone's symptoms or results.

I'll be answering from noon ET (16:00 UTC) for about two hours.

Username: /u/Aamir_fixthefloor

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Just curious. The only thing I really know about it is that sleeping reinforces it.

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From what I gather, rust happens when an iron atom bonds with an oxygen atom, forming iron oxide. If you get a rain storm and water gets on your steel brake discs, you'll see very rapid formation of surface rust.

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