Theoretically, how much water would it take to extinguish the sun? And what residue would be left over?

Answer 1

The Sun is a THOUSAND times the diameter of the Earth. That means its volume is a THOUSAND MILLION times the volume of the earth. Even if the whole Earth was water, you could drop it into the Sun and it would just evaporate PHHTTT like when an engine driver spits into his firebox.

Answer 2

The sun is not "on fire" so it couldn't be extinguished by water. The sun is a nuclear fusion explosion, the same one that is in a Hydrogen bomb, but on a much bigger scale. This explosion will continue until all the fuel is used up, and nothing can stop it.

Answer 3

The coolest part of the sun, the chromosphere, is only a few thousand degrees. Here a few simple molecules can form, like water. However anywhere else on the sun is too hot for molecules to exist. Water would not only evaporate, but it would be ripped apart into hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

Answer 4

Actually sun cannot be extinguished but rather we can use cold planets like pluto , neptune etc so many cold planets and use them for extinguishing the sun.
Other way is to stop nuclear fusion taking place in the sun

Answer 5

Sun cannot be extinguished, the star stands in that way distinguished: water you would need a lot indeed to cool down the heat of sun, to figure out how much, it may not be fun!

Answer 6

The sun does not burn, at least through oxidation. It fuses atoms of hydrogen into helium. This is achied because the sun has enough mass that its gravity is enormous. Adding water would increase the mass and gravitational field, causing it to het up, not cool down.

Answer 7

Since the sun isn't "on fire"......there are chemical reactions going on there.........I would say that no amount of water could extinguish the sun.

Answer 8

If you add water to the Sun, instead of extinguish its energy production, you will add more fuel to it (the hidrogen component of the water). Hidrogen is the main ingredient for the nuclear reaction (fusion reaction, 2 nucleus of hidrogen producing one of helium).
Sun is not in fire, it is in fact an hidrogen bomb in an non ending explossion.

Answer 9

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It will leave no residue as sun is full of gas, and steam from water will go away !

Answer 10

170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000
to the power of 10 squared US Gallons.