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Bringing Life Back to a Soaked Cell Phone
Posted by: | CommentsEven very smart, together folks like the Professor occasionally do something clumsy – like drop a cell phone in a toilet. Everyone knows that water usually means death to a phone, but this helpful guide offers some great tips – like using canned air and a bowl of uncooked rice – to draw moisture out of your cell phone.
Hopefully the Professor won’t have to try out any of these suggestions anytime soon, but it’s good to know that there are some great ideas out there for when they are needed.
Flushology 101 How Toilets Flush
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It may not be rocket science, but a good toilet flush is a lesson in physics.
When the toilet is flushed, water fills the toilet bowl and the upward leg of the trapway, the S-shape visibly snaking out the back of most toilets. When water reaches the top of the trapway, called the weir gravity pulls it into the downward leg of the S. Hence the name, gravity fed or simply gravity toilet.
The rush of water running downhill pulls waste and water out of the bowl. The stronger the push of the water, the stronger the pull of siphonic action to cleanse the bowl.
