Submitted by crazunggoy47 t3_y00ioa in askscience
Tex-Rob t1_irqdwk7 wrote
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Now you have me wondering how high water would need to be for the water layer to meet the vapor layer where the air is too thin?
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ltblue15 t1_irqnc7s wrote
High pressure alone at room temperature will only get you to supercritical fluid, which has continuous density changes with temperature and pressure. If you want liquid (which can phase change, aka boil), you need to drop the temperature below the critical temperature as well. Now, phase diagrams really only apply to pure gases because each element acts differently, and air is a mixture of elements. But, it’s mostly nitrogen and oxygen, and they behave relatively similarly, so we can sort of think about a phase diagram for it: https://www.google.com/search?q=phase+diagram+of+air&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS990US993&hl=en-US&prmd=ivn&sxsrf=ALiCzsaO8of4T5UciV1cKC7Z__6KuT183g:1665391121805&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5rOixodX6AhVmkYkEHTU-B28Q_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=375&bih=634&dpr=3#imgrc=hIjVH_jtZVTNLM
Anything below and to the right of the line is a gas. Anything to the left of the line is a liquid. Anything above the critical point is a supercritical fluid, which will totally fill its container like a gas and can no longer boil.
BigPickleKAM t1_irrccvq wrote
Or how hot a given water body needs to be to sublimate to vapor directly. At sea level the answer is 100 degrees celsius.
But at La Rinconada elevation 5,100 meters water boils at 82.5 degrees Celsius or so.
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