RE: Three (or so) more issues

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/18/2001 4:23:07 PM Central Daylight Time,
rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org writes:

(ci birje - don't ask me what a birje selci would be).

Judging by the definition of selci, it would be the smallest possible
unit that would still be beer.  Almost certainly a molecule, although
depending on how you define beer it might actually be several molecules
in a specified proportion.  Same with djacu.

Well, beer is a mixture, so it would have to be several molecules (alcohol,
water, carbon dioxide, flavoring components,...) in a certain proportion.
 Similarly for milk.  Water, on the other hand is strictly a compound, so one
molecule will do.  But in all these cases you have to consider whether being
a liquid at room temperature is a definitional property. If it is, thanthe
quantities have to be large enough to gets some flow.  Fuzz, fuzz, fuzz as
Steven the Peorian would say