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Originally Posted by Lurker
You said , "Did you skip science class the day..." and I think this does suggest that if the poster had gone to class as they were suppose to they would have been able to answer the question for themselves. It added nothing to the context of the discussion and it suggests that the poster should have seen such a demonstration.
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It surely wasn't my intended meaning. Next time, should it come up, I'll try to remember to use
missed, as less open to an unfortunate misinterpretation. I meant to allow for skipping of the demo by virtue of necessity, like illness. That I recall, I never skipped a class for an illegitimate reason, so it's not the primary connotation of the word for me.
It was a struggle for me to understand the question, knowing that this is a common demonstration. I wondered how someone could have seen that demo and still asked that question. Thinking, on those lines, voicing them, I suspected it had been missed (right word?) and proceeded to find similar on the Net. I thought it added something, it helped -- until m1omg came back with a clarification that confused me further.
I saw the oxygen-concentration demos at a young age, grade school, when fire makes a great teaching tool. Is it college material now? Yikes!