Assuming you meant a bottle of liquid water, here's what would happen, and why:
If you look at a phase diagram for water, you will see that at very low pressure, water is stable only in gas phase. The lower the pressure, the lower a temperature is needed to boil the water. At zero pressure (deep space), water will boil spontaneously.
So as soon as you open the bottle, the water will begin rapidly boiling off, most likely ejecting itself out of the bottle. Since boiling involves the most energetic molecules leaving the surface of the liquid, the slower molecules remain behind, and the liquid's temperature will rapidly drop. It will not turn into ice, however, because the only stable form of water at zero pressure is a gas.
Assuming you have a strong bottle that won't burst, you could leave a bottle of liquid water in deep space for some time without it freezing. It is true that deep space is extremely cold (maybe 4 Kelvin), but it also almost completely devoid of matter to which to transfer the heat. Therefore, the heat loss of an object in deep space must come almost completely from radiative losses and evaporative losses. If our bottle stays closed, there are no evaporative losses, and the radiative heat losses are relatively slow compared to conductive losses. The water would last quite some time as a liquid before eventually freezing (the pressure inside the bottle would allow ice to form).
A third scenario that's interesting to consider is throwing an ice cube into space. It would slowly sublimate directly to a gas without passing through the liquid phase, much as frozen carbon dioxide ('dry ice') sublimates on earth.
2007-04-25 21:51:50
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answered by lithiumdeuteride 7
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When u through a ball in space it will fall in the ground.
What space u r talking about ?
If the space around u nothing will happen, If the space the space in the universe where temperature is very low the water will already be frozen in trans transportation time then also nothing will happen when u open the cap of the bottle.
2007-04-25 20:29:14
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answered by Dilip Dey 2
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Will boil. The boiling decrease the temperature and the water develop into ice. The ice subliminate too... contained in the Moon there are close to 0 stress. The boiling element is concerning the stress, so contained in the Moon the liquid water will initiate to boil once you open the bottle. contained in the area there are vry small parts of gases, like a molecule / cubic centimeter. (about ninety% hydrogen, 9% He, and different gases < a million%)
2016-12-04 21:34:58
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answered by ? 4
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being in space in the shadow of the earth, water will freeze(cold)
being on the sunny side, water will boil and bottle bursts in pieces (heat)
2007-04-25 20:19:59
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answered by schnuckiputzlmäusltiger 4
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It will already be frozen in space. So when you open the bottle, nothing will happen.
2007-04-25 20:03:05
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answered by Anonymous
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