On the sea bottom over by the Marianas. The liquid sulfur’s at about 190°F. The crab escapes, apparently unharmed.
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But not in the Marianas Trench? Because…
I’m puzzled, because sulfur melts at about 239°F.
The title of the thread sounds like the first line of a haiku.
The lake stuff’s dirty and wet. It’s also under a lot of pressure. That can affect melting points. I got the 190° or so temp from one of the other videos, where they stuck a temperature probe in the stuff.
It takes more than hot water to cook a crab. You need Old Bay Seasoning too.
I suspect it was 191 degrees C, not F.
Crab crawling on lake
Molten sulfer under feet
It does not get burned
190°C = 374°F
Vent crabs don’t like it much warmer than 75°F, and even tube worms max out at 100°C (212°F).
197 degrees C, actually: look here about halfway down; right after “and then… the stench.”
How do you do a degree-superscript thing, by the way?
So it is. Thanks for finding that, the video itself didn’t say °C or °F.
I get the ° glyph by typing opt-shift-8. That’s on a Mac.
Man creates haiku
Thinks he is very clever
Fails to spell sulfur
°°°°°Thank you.
‘Problem loading page’
taking too long to respond
I can see no crab
I’m from the UK
What you think to be correct
Also wrong to me
Decapods know not
the periodic table
neither do they care
:smack: That’s what I get for fiddling with the DVR remote, watching a show, watching the clock for Survivor, and trying to type at the same time.
This thread’s about crabs
Why do we always hijack?
The Haiku spam meme.
Linky no work-ee
Office is quiet today
Amuse myself must
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floor of molten sulfur