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Re: Density of gas mixture

And what about the 'well known fact' that deep mines ARE considerably
warmer than the surface. Is it just the sweat of the laboring miners
that accounts for this??? 8-)

At 10:22 AM -0400 7/21/99, Robert A Cohen wrote:
Now that I know about the "source of heat" theory, I must say that I don't
have a good answer to this. The "close to magma" theory can be somewhat
addressed by measuring the temperature below ground (not in mines, mind
you).

I don't exactly see where we're going with this.

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