I once heard that there is a temperature just below freezing where water is niether a solid or a liquid. Is this true? If it is, do you know what that temperature is?
2007-05-19 09:26:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anthony62490 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Sorry, what I meant to say was, just ABOVE freezing.
2007-05-19 13:02:20 · update #1
Yes it is true!
The point is that at any pressure, there is one temperature where water can be in two states in the same time. And guess what, at atmospheric pressure, it is 0°C(water and ice) and 100°C (water and gas)
And there is one temperature and one pressure where the three states exists in the same time. It il a bit below 0°C.
2007-05-19 09:33:10 · answer #1 · answered by Corben D 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The water to ice is not as cut and dry as they make it. There are instrument makers who take advantage of the phase change to make a tight control ice junction for electronics. Not used much anymore now that electronics can do it with computer control. Water/ice does expand just before it fully solidifies at zero degrees C
2007-05-19 23:15:07 · answer #2 · answered by Brian T 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dont think its really about temperature.
water does not instantly freeze in most cases on the face of this planet. It must transition into the solid state.
2007-05-19 16:31:54 · answer #3 · answered by Mercury 2010 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The temperature of semisolid water is slurpee.
2007-05-19 16:41:18 · answer #4 · answered by el slinko 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋