Cold Sweaty Steel

[shinyedges]

Subscribed, sweet thread

 

[Dangerously]

So if it’s sweat that’s been evaporated and condensed onto the knives, isn’t that distillation?

I hope you have a license for that still, you moonshiner!

 

[DocJD]

So if it’s sweat that’s been evaporated and condensed onto the knives, isn’t that distillation?

I hope you have a license for that still, you moonshiner!

I think it's "still " OK to distill water . But , yes , it should be fairly pure like distilled water . Salt should be left behind during evaporation .

 

[marcinek]

nevermind.

 

[Makael]

Condensation shows on the cooler surface.

 

[BITEME]

Curious ? that's how we reproduce the mini ak47...just have never seen one secrete outside the lab setting.
Note to Lynn: Espadas are now auto-secreting

 

[Andy the Aussie]

If you "sweat" lots in clothes the clothes absorb the sweat, the moisture is not entirely from a "distilling process" nor do I believe the clothes filter the sweat to a complete extent layer by layer. If the knife was suspended above (and not in contact with) your sweaty body/clothes and moisture then appeared as a result of the transpiration of sweat to the air would, I think it would mean the moisture would be mostly distilled of the salts etc in sweat. What you have going on in your pocket is a direct movement of the sweat from your body soaking into your clothes and as it soaks through the material it is collecting on the non porous materials it encounters on the way through. Salts and minerals will collect on/in all the materials the moisture encounters on the way to the surface. As example, when you dry yourself with a towel that water removed from the surface of your body is not distilled, it is absorbed, your clothes are doing much the same thing as the sweat appears on skin.

What you are doing there in your pocket is encasing your knives (and any other items) in material wet with "sweat" to some degree or another. There will of course be some collection of evaporated moisture I grant however, till the sweat is evaporating DIRECT to air (be it from your body or clothes) it will be carrying with it some of the content the content which is (slightly perhaps) corrosive.