Can Oxygen freeze?

Answer 1

well.....no....oxygen itself is never found ever due to its unstable...you would only find o2 never just oxygen itself...but oxygen is a gas so it cant freeze....the only way u can get it to freeze if you make it into liquid oxygen but then your adding hydrogen to it then it forms a compound. so the answer is no.

In addition not every element can turn into a solid, liquid, and gas on its OWN...when combined it can but most of them can not...only when formed into a compound is that statement possible.

Answer 2

Liquid oxygen has a pale blue color and is strongly paramagnetic; it can be suspended between the poles of a powerful horseshoe magnet.[1] Liquid oxygen has a density of 1.141 g/cm3 (1.141 kg/L or 1141 kg/m3) and is cryogenic with a freezing point of 54.36 K (−361.82 °F, −222.65 °C) and a boiling point of 90.19 K (−297.33 °F, −182.96 °C) at 101.325 kPa (760 mmHg). Liquid oxygen has an expansion ratio of 1:861 under 1 standard atmosphere (100 kPa) and 20 °C (68 °F),[2][3] and because of this, it is used in some commercial and military aircraft as transportable source of breathing oxygen.

Because of its cryogenic nature, liquid oxygen can cause the materials it touches to become extremely brittle. Liquid oxygen is also a very powerful oxidizing agent: organic materials will burn rapidly and energetically in liquid oxygen. Further, if soaked in liquid oxygen, some materials such as coal briquettes, carbon black, etc., can detonate unpredictably from sources of ignition such as flames, sparks or impact from light blows. Petrochemicals, including asphalt, often exhibit this behavior.

The tetraoxygen molecule (O4) was first predicted in 1924 by Gilbert N. Lewis, who proposed it to explain why liquid oxygen defied Curie's law.[4] Modern computer simulations indicate that although there are no stable O4 molecules in liquid oxygen, O2 molecules do tend to associate in pairs with antiparallel spins, forming transient O4 units.[5]

Liquid nitrogen has a lower boiling point at −196 °C (77 K) than oxygen's −183 °C (90 K), and vessels containing liquid nitrogen can condense oxygen from air: when most of the nitrogen has evaporated from such a vessel there is a risk that liquid oxygen remaining can react violently with organic material. Conversely, liquid nitrogen or liquid air can be oxygen-enriched by letting it stand in open air; atmospheric oxygen dissolves in it, while nitrogen evaporates preferentially. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_oxygen

Answer 3

All gases can freeze apart from 1 - which is Helium.

Even at absolute zero, 0 degrees Kelvin.

When there is a change of state (i.e. from liquid to solid), something called 'latent heat' rears its head - also known as the 'hidden heat'.

The latent heat of helium has just enough energy to keep it as a liquid even at the lowest temperature possible.

I love low temperature physics - I wish I got more questions like this.

Answer 4

I don't understand why people talk when they don't know what they are saying "NO" blah . . .

YES it can freeze it is done all the time.

Most commonly in research it is frozen using a surface commonly molecular seive which can be done at 77K for any pressure.

It can be frozen at 180Torr at 77K meaning at liquid nitrogen temperatures and atmospheric pressure of 760Torr Oxygen will freeze out.

Answer 5

Yes. Everything can freeze. At absolute zero (-273 C or 0 Kelvin) everything freezes.

I don't know the specific temperature, but the number in a previous answer seems plausible.

Answer 6

Yes, it is called The Vacuum of Space. Moon has no oxygen because it has no atmos, no atmos freezing space, freezing space, no O

Answer 7

Yep

Answer 8

Yes, however it needs to get to a very low temperature first, namely, -218.4 degrees celsius (about 55 degrees kelvin).

Answer 9

every element can exist in all 3 phases of matter.......solid, liquid, and gas

Answer 10

yes atv -218.7°C

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