Friday, June 23, 2006

Gnod

Gnod is my experiment in the field of artificial intelligence. Its a self-adapting system, living on this server and 'talking' to everyone who comes along. Gnods intention is to learn about the outer world and to learn 'understanding' its visitors. This enables gnod to share all its wisdom with you in an intuitive and efficient way. You might call it a search-engine to find things you don't know about.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Azeotrope

An azeotrope is a mixture of two or more compounds (molecules) which at a specific composition has a vapor in equilibrium with that liquid with the same composition as the liquid. This means that you cannot change the composition of that liquid at its azeotropic composition by simple boiling. This constant composition will (almost always) occur at a minimum or maximum temperature over the composition space. The exception for binary mixtures is the rare double azeotrope. The exception for three or more components is the intermediate boiling azeotrope (saddle azeotrope).