Sunday, April 27, 2014
Liquid Boiling and Freezing
There’s
not a lot of documentation on this experiment, but what we know is that
the unknown liquid is both boiling and freezing. Actually, if you go by
the visuals, it seems to rock back and forth between those states
quickly. The pressure inside the glass was lowered, which causes the
temperature to drop. But it also drops the boiling point of the liquid.
Where the freezing point and the new, low-pressure boiling point meet is
called its triple point. It’s freaky to watch. I kept waiting for the glass to break, because that just seems like what should happen.
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