Space Cowboy wrote:
> A concentration is an
> average of all components you can taste and not some meaningless
> scientific factoid that claims tea taste depends on differential rates
> of solution which you could never taste from one split second to the
> next.

On a lexicographic note, I'd like to point out that "factoid" has a slightly
different etymological meaning. (-Accepting, per a famous literary
character, that words mean what we mean them to mean.) The term was coined
by Norman Mailer in 1973 to encompass snippets of information that have
significance only because they have been published - like much social
gossip. Science hews to a somewhat more primal standard.

-DM