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if the water is at very very low pressure it can become gaseous.

See also - the triple point of water

2006-11-10 00:55:03 · answer #1 · answered by Stuart T 3 · 0 0

The single combination of pressure and temperature at which pure water, pure ice, and pure water vapour can coexist in a stable equilibrium occurs at exactly 273.16 kelvins (0.01 °C) and a pressure of 611.73 pascals (ca. 6.1173 millibars, 0.0060373057 atm). At that point, it is possible to change all of the substance to ice, water, or vapour by making infinitesimally small changes in pressure and temperature. Strictly speaking, the surfaces separating the different phases should also be perfectly flat, to avoid the effects of surface tensions.

Water has an unusual and complex phase diagram, although this does not affect general comments about the triple point. At high temperatures, increasing pressure results in first liquid, and then solid, water (above around 109 Pa a crystalline form of ice which is denser than water forms). At lower temperatures the liquid state ceases to appear with compression causing the state to pass directly from gas to solid.

At a constant pressure higher than the triple point, heating ice necessarily passes from ice to liquid then to steam. In pressures below the triple point, such as in outer space where the pressure is low, liquid water cannot exist: Ice skips the liquid stage and becomes steam on heating, in a process known as sublimation

So you see. it depends on conditions.

2006-11-10 01:03:25 · answer #2 · answered by Mysterious 3 · 0 0

At a low enough atmospheric pressure. Freezing and boiling points are determined by atmospheric pressure.

2006-11-10 01:01:00 · answer #3 · answered by dave 5 · 0 0

No.
Since low pressure and lower digree than T point,the water at 0.00℃ is the ice.Not can be boiled the water but it can be sublimed. 

2006-11-10 01:06:55 · answer #4 · answered by atomonados 1 · 0 1

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