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you have an empty can you let it boil put it in cold water up side down and it crushes why please use volume air pressure gas and the charles law oh evaporation and partictmovemont

2006-09-18 10:24:14 · 2 answers · asked by asia_6194cutiepie 1 in Environment

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When you heat up the can it fills with steam (water in its gas form). Then if you cool it down, the steam condenses back into water. It takes a LOT of steam to make just a tiny amount of water, so when the steam condenses, most of the can is empty - a vacuum, it doesnt have anything in it. No steam and no air.
OK, so the atmosphere is pressing down with a tremendous pressure... if there is air in the can, the air prevents the can from crushing. If there is steam in the can the team prevents the can fropm cruishing. But if the can is empty, then the atmosphere mushes it right down. An aluminum can is not nearly strong enough to resist the pressure of the atmosphere.

2006-09-18 13:43:12 · answer #1 · answered by matt 7 · 0 0

Learn english before science.

2006-09-18 17:32:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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