I of course understand the joke, but I’ll give someone else the pleasure of explaining it…
Finally something I can apply my expensive ChemE degree on :')
These diagrams were always the worst to use, far too busy and usually printed on cheap paper making it impossible to distinguish one line from the other.
Basically its a diagram is relating the energy required to change the state of something (usually water) and while in theory is amazing and clean in allowing you to determining enthalpy necessary for a state at a constant pressure.
In practice though can get really messy especially with more variables in play, as shown with the temperature decreasing as the balloon altitude increases.
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
explainxkcd.com/3032/
Posting this link so I can tap on it.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
When posting links to helpful websites rather than answering the question yourself, it’s a good idea to actually read the answer on the helpful website first.
You know, in case there’s a big banner across the top saying “This answer is a useless pile of trash generated by an LLM, please ignore it” (mildly paraphrasing).
death_to_carrots@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The header on explainxkcd is always something funny, because the volunteers are not yet ready to say thst they habe finished the explanation.
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The LLM answer was deleted even before I posted the link. As mentioned the header is always a joke, and in this case it’s referencing that, but over the next few days I expect that link to become useful.
smeg@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It’s all kicking off in the discussion!