What happens to air before it gets closer to absolute zero?

Answer 1

Well the oxygen molecules would freeze long before getting close to absolute zero.
However the hydrogen molecules which are bosons would form a bose-einstein condensate. The oxygen molecules which are fermions would just freeze at approx 54 K. argon at 83K and Nitrogen at 63K

Answer 2

Good question,....from a microscopic scale the molecules will move slower and slower, until at absolute 0 they stop, which in reality is an unatainable state..but physics can come extremely close to absolute 0.

From our perspective (macroscopic) the air would turn into a solid....unless there is some other unkown state of matter at absoulute 0.

Answer 3

The atoms (in the air) vibrations slow down to next to nothing, then they change form just before they reach (to within one billionth of a degree) absolute zero.

Answer 4

Well, air is just oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and a random assortment of trace molecules, so it will act the way everything else does at lower temperatures, first go from a gas to a liquid, the go from a liquid to a solid. Hope that's what you were asking for.

Answer 5

the 'unknown' state you are talking about
is the 5th state of matter
known as bose-einstein condensates.

however i dont think air can form a condensate, only certain substance, when supercooled to near absolute zero can form these condensates.
They exhibit strange quantum properties such as interfering with itself (like the wave like nature of light) , and being relatively unaffected by friction.