Re: [Phys-l] Entrainment of oil in Hurricane?

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

I don't like that use of entrain**, even tho it's commonly used as a substitute for suck***.  For a time I objected to the use of suck, even to the extent of telling people i didn't use a vacuum cleaner, but a suction cleaner.

This reminds me of diffusion pumps.  Are they Bernoulli or suction pumps?



**  the oil is not already in the atmosphere so entrain is not a "correct" use for that word.  One doesn't say, the roof was entrained into the tornado, but blown up into.  (by the overpressure of the house under the roof.)

http://mw4.m-w.com/dictionary/entrain

*** Now completely accepted as describing the method of making noise at the end of milkshake consumption.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/suck


bc giving up being a strict prescriptivist

p.s. on second thought I'm wrong.  the wind whips up spume which is carried along w/ the wind and when it slows drops it's load just as water does to silt at the alluvial or bend in the river.


On 2010, Jun 24, , at 14:52, Peter Schoch wrote:

> I object to his terminology of 'sucked into', I prefer entrained.  However, the possibility is intriguing.  With lower pressure, shouldn't the top layers of the gulf (and thus the oil) be entrained into the hurricane and thus be 'rained out' over the inland regions causing an even greater ecological problem?!