BTW, If one was already profoundly hypothermic, would it be unwise to fart?

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    No no, dissolution does generate (sometimes negative) heat. It’s called heat of solvation and it exists because when something dissolves it breaks solute-solute bonds, requiring energy, but then forms solute-solvent bonds, releasing energy. This difference can either result in the solution becoming hotter or colder than its components.

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        8 days ago

        Yeah solutions can have any phase of solute and any phase of solvent. The most common example of a solution of gases is the air, so yeah.

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            Okay this is apparently one of those things where you’ll get different answers depending on who you ask (even different Wikipedia articles give different answers), but this is a matter of semantics. No matter what you call it, mixing on a molecular level will result in the release or absorption of (in the case of gases a very small amount of) heat.