[hamdani yusuf]

So, once again; how big is your apparatus?
If it's more than a few nm you can pretty much ignore the direct electrostatic effects.

I thought you can estimate the size from the video, that they are significantly larger than 1 cm.

[Bored chemist]

So, once again; how big is your apparatus?
If it's more than a few nm you can pretty much ignore the direct electrostatic effects.

I thought you can estimate the size from the video, that they are significantly larger than 1 cm.

I thought they would be.
In that case, shocking as you may find this, I was correct to say

The molecules can not possibly know what is happening somewhere else.
So there's no way for that to affect the way they diffuse.

[hamdani yusuf]

So, once again; how big is your apparatus?
If it's more than a few nm you can pretty much ignore the direct electrostatic effects.

I thought you can estimate the size from the video, that they are significantly larger than 1 cm.

I thought they would be.
In that case, shocking as you may find this, I was correct to say

The molecules can not possibly know what is happening somewhere else.
So there's no way for that to affect the way they diffuse.

So you won't think that this experiment below would work.

[Bored chemist]

So you won't think that this experiment below would work.

How long have you been having these hallucinations, and have you consulted a doctor?

[hamdani yusuf]

So you won't think that this experiment below would work.

How long have you been having these hallucinations, and have you consulted a doctor?

Why can't you just tell why it works?

[Bored chemist]

So you won't think that this experiment below would work.

How long have you been having these hallucinations, and have you consulted a doctor?

Why can't you just tell why it works?

Again with the nonsense.

I can tell how it works.

[paul cotter]

Hamdani, it depends on what is in those two beakers. Lead is quite electropositive but it often appears to be less so.

[hamdani yusuf]

When the clamp is released, some of salt water will flow to the left container. They don't have to know what's there on the other side. It's just chained interactions among particles in those containers.

[Bored chemist]

I'm pretty sure the right hand tank would drain before anything else happened.
To make the system work properly you need to make it airtight.
I also think there's a problem because salt water is denser than fresh.
The water in the tube with the clamp would initially flow from right to left
Once you fix that...

Initially, when you first open the clamp, nothing happens in the salt- or fresh- water tanks.
After a short interval the message that there's a  pressure gradient gets through and the liquid starts flowing.
That message arrives at the speed of sound in the liquid.
That's how it "knows" what to do and when.


What point were you trying to illustrate?

[hamdani yusuf]

Let's just remove the tube to bottom tank. I was too lazy to draw it myself, so I just search online images resembling what I meant.

What point were you trying to illustrate?

They don't have to know what's there on the other side.

[Bored chemist]

Let's just remove the tube to bottom tank.

OK

What point were you trying to illustrate?

[hamdani yusuf]

Let's just remove the tube to bottom tank.

OK

What point were you trying to illustrate?

It's contradicting your rhetoric.

The molecules can not possibly know what is happening somewhere else.
So there's no way for that to affect the way they diffuse.

Here is a video demonstrating diffusion with gas, but the effects have similarities with liquids.