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[Porgie Tirebiter]

but there are quite a few other solvents that will dissolve a wider variety of solutes

Sorry, but that's just wrong - Elementary Chemistry.

As for volatility, it's a different issue. Sure gasoline is higher in volatility, but that's all relative and has nothing to do with solvency.

And in that comparison water could be considered nonvolatile, as water molecules at 72 degrees F are not “eager” to jump out of the beaker like other highly volatile compounds!

The degree of "eagerness" is not a factor. Either a substance displays volatility, or it doesn't. Just because water is less volatile than gasoline doesn't make it non volatile.

[Ecomike]

Tell that nonsense to a puddle of water at 72*F in the Mohave desert at 5% relative humidity, at high noon. Its the photons from the sun that trigger evaporation at the surface.

http://www.jaegerresearchinstitute.org/articles/deniers.htm

"set of experiments in Australia, not related to sunlight intensity measurements in any way happened. This third set of studies came from what's known as the pan-evaporation rate. For the past 100 years or so, pans of water have been placed out in the sun all over the world to measure how much water evaporates every day. Every morning, at the exact same time, water is added to the pan to bring it back up to its standard level. The amount of water that must be added represents the amount of water that had evaporated in the past 24 hours. Thus the pan evaporation rate serves as a type of quality control for agriculture.

What's significant to Global Dimming, however, is that a pan evaporation study showed that water is NOT evaporating as fast as it used to because the sunlight is not as intense. The most significant reason for evaporation is NOT heat, relative humidity or wind factors however -- it's photon intensity, i.e., sunlight intensity. Photons from direct sunlight are by far the largest cause of evaporation because only photons have enough energy to crack through the surface tension of water and cause evaporation.

This pan evaporation study is backed up by over 100 years of data collected all over the world, so there is no question: the worldwide evaporation rate of water has been falling. Thus the global pan evaporation data INDEPENDENTLY confirms the dimming data discussed above. Zits take note."