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dghf | 5 days ago

So, I got the physics wrong. Apologies and thanks for the correction.

But the semantic point still stands. Boiling water is still water -- in the specific sense of H2O in its liquid state -- while ice is not. The complaint that frozen water has a single-word synonym while boiling water does not is making a false equivalence.

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