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What should not be drunk when dehydrated?

Alcohol is possible. Just like tea and coffee.

Basically, any liquid will help you stay hydrated, although you should stay away from sea water.

It is not clear where this strange idea came from, that any liquid other than water leads to dehydration. There is no scientific basis for such a statement. As a diuretic (i.e. a diuretic), caffeine does cause water loss - however, only a small fraction of what you add to the body when drinking a cup of coffee. In terms of fluid replacement in children, everything is equally good - be it tea, coffee, milk or lemonade.

Ron Moan, professor of human physiology at the University of Aberdeen Medical College, while studying the effects of alcohol (also, by the way, considered a diuretic) on the human body, found that in moderate doses, alcohol practically does not affect the fluid balance of the average person.

The results of his research, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, show that alcoholic beverages with an alcohol content of less than 4% (for example, light or light beer) can be safely consumed to prevent dehydration. Sea water, on the other hand, is an emetic, so you will certainly turn inside out if you decide to fight dehydration with it. But if you still manage to overpower yourself and swallow even a little, all the moisture contained in the cells of your body, following the law of osmosis, will rush to this highly concentrated salty liquid in order to dilute it.

As a result, your cells will lose water, and in severe cases, this can even lead to spasms, impaired brain activity, as well as liver and kidney failure.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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What is the normal state of the glass?

Solid.

You may have heard more than once that glass is a liquid that has cooled but not crystallized and that simply flows fantastically slowly. This is not true - glass bona fide (Really, truly (lat.).) is hard.

In support of claims that glass is a liquid, people often cite church stained-glass windows as an example: they point to the lower part of the window, where the glass is thicker.

However, the reason here is not at all that the glass has flowed down over time. Medieval glaziers sometimes simply could not cast perfectly uniform glass sheets. In such cases, they inserted the glass into the stained glass window with a thick edge to the floor - for obvious reasons.

The confusion about whether glass is a liquid or a solid arose from a misreading of the work of the German physicist Gustav Tammann (1861 - 1938), who studied the properties of glass and described its behavior as it solidified.

According to Tammann's observations, the molecular structure of glass is disordered - in contrast to the clear and neat arrangement of molecules, say, in metals.

Looking for an analogy, the scientist compared glass to a "supercooled liquid." But to say that glass is like a liquid does not mean that glass is a liquid.

Today, solids are divided into crystalline and amorphous. Glass is an amorphous solid.

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