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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Besides ... if you look at the last paragraph, he concludes that hell is exothermic -- which only matches with "hell has not frozen over yet, cuz she didn't sleep with me". The longer version forgot to change the answer to "endothermic".
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I'm afraid you have endothermic and exothermic the wrong way around.
Exothermic means something that gives off heat. If Hell is exothermic, that means it is giving off heat and getting colder.
The confusion probably arises because the words are usually used to describe chemical reactions — an exothermic reaction generates heat energy and so the reactants get hotter, spreading heat to the surroundings, while an endothermic reaction requires extra energy to proceed so the reactants cool, drawing in thermal energy from the surroundings.