Osiris: 1 revision: Discworld import 2

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Mentioned in {{TLC}}, this spell inefficiently unmixes two things using nano-[[demons]]. [[Archchancellor]] [[Ridcully]] proposed working it on salt to solve [[XXXX]]'s water crisis in {{TLC}}. The idea was that with a bucket of ocean water, you'd end up with a bucket of salt and a bucket of water. Unfortunately, as [[Ponder Stibbons]] points out, it takes a great deal of magic and a fortnight to produce even a pint of drinking water from a pint-and-a-bit of seawater, making it a less-effective solution than Ridcully hoped. But that doesn't mean it was actually a ''bad idea''...

On [[XXXX]], when asked if [[Bugarup University]] has something like it, Archchancellor [[Bill Rincewind]] mentions that the spell is known as "Bonza Charlie's Beaut Sieve". That means that whenever Maxwell invented his not-so-Impressive Seperator, it had to have come after wizards came to Bugarup. Presumably, then, many other spells common to [[Unseen University]] have different names in Bugarup University due to parallel evolution.

== Annotation ==

The spell name is a reference to an 'equivalent' Roundworld gedankenexperiment: Maxwell's Demon.

[[Category: Spells]]

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