4 ms·

I wonder if the mass stays roughly the same.

• brianberns 6y ago
  It loses a little mass due to water boiling off, but other than that the mass has to stay exactly the same (barring nuclear reactions, which typically don't make for good quinoa).
  • LASR 6y ago
    I don't want to be extremely pedantic. But even regular chemical reactions change mass just as nuclear reactions. It's very small, but it's there. Any change in internal energy will cause a mass change, regardless of the specific fields that are affected.
  • davrosthedalek 6y ago
    Hot quinoa is slightly heavier than cold quinoa.
    • gowld 6y ago
      why?
      • davrosthedalek 6y ago
        Heat is energy, so hot quinoa has more energy, which means more mass. All internal energy of a system contributes to its rest mass.
        • judofyr 6y ago
          I'm not sure if special relativity applies in the context of quinoa. No scale is going to show a difference in the mass of quinoa caused by relativistic effects of heat differences.
          • pbhjpbhj 6y ago
            No weighing scale ... sounds like a challenge!
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