Can you dehydrate in a bath?

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Dr Chris Smith

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🗓️ 4 September 2013

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Another special question and answer edition of the show where the team get to grips with your queries, including, cna you dehydrate in a bath? What is tinnitus? What chemicals leak from batteries? Why does water freeze from the top down? Are solar photons making the Earth more massive? And what causes deja vu? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	The Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists, which is a science phonin
0:19.7	extra-ganza for you with me Chris Smith and also with our specialist panel who I will introduce you to now so the lineup today
0:28.1	Dominic Ford is an astrophysicist from Cambridge University
0:32.1	He has an appreciation for heavenly bodies haven't we all.
0:34.6	Hi Dominic. Hi there Chris. Also Laura House is a chemist. She also writes about
0:39.8	science for the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World magazine.
0:44.0	Hi Laura.
0:45.0	Hi there, Chris.
0:46.0	So she's looking forward to reacting to your questions as they come in.
0:49.0	Ginny Smith is also with us.
0:50.0	She is a chemist and a psychologist, so she's going to be getting her
0:53.9	head around all of your questions. Hi Jenny. Hi there. And good old Dave Ansel
0:58.0	who's an experimental physicist who likes to do the experiment to find out what's
1:01.9	going on. He's also here.
1:04.0	Previous exploits include building a chocolate teapot to prove that one really isn't useless,
1:08.3	earning him a place on the Wikipedia teapot page. Well done, Dave, and also doing the experiment to find out how fat you would have to be
1:15.0	to stop a bullet with your belly. But you didn't do it with a human, did you take?
1:19.0	We did it with a big bucket of jelly, because unfortunately wouldn't let us do it with people.
1:23.7	Thank God for that. So if you have any questions they're ready and waiting to
1:28.1	answer them for you already in the lineup this week why water makes different
1:32.3	noises just before it boils we'll find out the answer
1:35.0	to that one, whether a person sitting in a bath of water can still dehydrate, and can
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