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    Ok does anyone know what this is called in English?

    Can anyone help me out? This is a very simple principal most of you should recognize very quickly. Its really annoying to be limited from completing what should be a very very trivial task by not knowing one word. After thinking about this for a few min I've decided it will take less of my time to describe this, post it and go to other things than would using a translator site (which are bad concerning such vocabulary).


    Ok its basically a principle that allows you to transfer liquid from one container to another. I think it is some times it is even used (the upper limit of 10m at 1 bar is quite severe) for practical application in wine cellars to transfer wine.

    You put one end of a tube filled with liquid into a vessel filled with liquid; you then put the other end into an empty container. In order for liquid transfer to begin you must evacuate the tube of air (this does not imply a vacuum the tube can be filled with water before you begin).

    I'd appreciate any usefull comments. And yes before you ask words and languages are really not my thing, I can speak English very well but the tought of improving my mastery of the language brings back horrid childhood memories of Spanish, French and German lessons.


    Edit:
    The above was answered quickly and efficently, truly google can only marvel at the sheer amounts of time people on poly use to answer stupid questions.

    Now since I am counting on using this principle again, can someone explain what the phrase below means?

    "Ah whoha DanSed me."
    Last edited by Heraclitus; May 25, 2008, 11:40.
    Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
    The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
    The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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  • #2
    pouring?
    siphoning?

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    • #3
      Vacuum liquid transfer?

      Other than that I don't know... too early in the morning probably!
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      • #4
        siphon

        Ah whoha DanSed me.
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        • #5
          I know the word you are after.

          How much is the info worth to you?
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          • #6
            Can MarkG answer who got it in first?

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            • #7
              It's not you, although you are close.
              "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
              "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Whoha

                siphoning?
                Originally posted by OzzyKP
                siphon

                Yeah that's the word. As soon as I saw it I recognised it, I do know it and have used it, but for some odd reason I couldn't recall it at the moment in question.

                This is what I about poly, so many people with soo little to do , it makes using it much more efficient than a google search.


                Originally posted by OzzyKP

                Ah whoha DanSed me.
                I'm sorry I have absolutley no idea what this means... is this a popculture reference? Bad spelling in action? Is it even English?
                Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                • #9
                  I think "decant" is the word Heraclitus is after.

                  edit - xpost

                  Decant specifically refers to wine (your example) Heraclitus.

                  Siphon works great if you are referring to gasoline and/or using a tube.
                  "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
                  "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Wezil
                    It's not you, although you are close.
                    All he needed to do was jog my memory.


                    You will need to rip me off another day.
                    Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                    The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                    The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Wezil
                      I think "decant" is the word Heraclitus is after.
                      Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                      The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                      The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                      • #12
                        its a reference specific to this forum.

                        Generally it happens when you are in an argument with someone, and instead of posting a new post you edit your just previously posted post, like this. And the edit is in before the 5 minute timer and the "this post was edited" disclaimer, so it appears as though it is your original post.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Whoha
                          its a reference specific to this forum.

                          Now I'm rather interested in this...
                          Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                          The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                          The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                          • #14
                            You "siphon" wine?

                            Alright.
                            "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
                            "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Wezil
                              You "siphon" wine?

                              Alright.
                              No you decant it.
                              Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                              The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                              The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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