In a typical Australian household, where is the oldest stale air?
I think there might be air tight non-vacuum components to some common electronics? I also thought of air trapped between the pages of a book which hasn’t been opened in a decade, or air trapped between the footless base of a piece of furniture and the floor.
A long-unopened air-tight container in the pantry – or a still-sealed-from-the-factory food item eg packet of chips.
A book probably wouldn’t contain much air. Paper has volume, and isn’t air-tight, so what it does contain would permeate.
Air in the float of a toilet cistern?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stale
1. Having lost freshness, effervescence, or palatability: stale bread; stale air.
2. Lacking originality or spontaneity: a stale joke.
3. Impaired in efficacy, vigor, or spirit, as from inactivity or boredom.
4. Law Having lost effectiveness or force through lack of exercise or action.
intr.v.staled, stal·ing, stales
To urinate. Used especially of horses and camels.
n.
The urine of certain animals, especially horses and camels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staling
Staling, or “going stale”, is a chemical and physical process in bread and other foods that reduces their palatability. Stale bread is dry and leathery.
Staling is not, as is commonly believed, simply a drying-out process due to evaporation. Bread will stale even in a moist environment, and stales most rapidly at temperatures just above freezing.
Bike or car tyres, footy or basketball, empty screw top jar.
What do you call stale? I’ve got air floating around here that was breathed by Leonardo da Vinci. That’s pretty stale I reckon.
Hi Transition,
By “stale” I mean; the smallest meaningful unit of ‘air’ (molecule?) which has been completely contained in one less-than-house-sized-but-otherwise-arbitrary-volume of space within a typical house for the largest amount of time.
I’m also thinking now there is probably air trapped in the foundation and/or slab of the house, which has been there since construction.
morrie said:
What do you call stale? I’ve got air floating around here that was breathed by Leonardo da Vinci. That’s pretty stale I reckon.
Hi Morrie,
Is my reply to Transition enough clarification?
esselte said:
morrie said:
What do you call stale? I’ve got air floating around here that was breathed by Leonardo da Vinci. That’s pretty stale I reckon.
Hi Morrie,
Is my reply to Transition enough clarification?
air trapped under the floor
in the walls
in non ported speakers,
in the roof
under and around the bath, tiled areas
In some cases, air trapped between people’s ears…
Divine Angel said:
In some cases, air trapped between people’s ears…
And/or retained by their anal sphincter?
bob(from black rock) said:
Divine Angel said:
In some cases, air trapped between people’s ears…
And/or retained by their anal sphincter?