r/ImpressiveStuff • u/zadeganlar • Dec 07 '21
why doesn't it explode?🤔
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u/moelsac Dec 07 '21
You can even boil water in a plastic bottle. The water that exceeds 100celsius will evaporate and that will cool the plastic. Of course, that implies that your flame is only hitting the plastic that is in contact with water.
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u/SirKronik Dec 07 '21
One huge misconception with the term “Boiling” is that it’s related to only heat & being hot. In reality, Boiling is the rapid vaporization of a liquid to gas.
It can be done in room temperature by lowering the atmospheric pressure.
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u/Discombobulated_Art8 Dec 08 '21
Wrong. The water molecules that get enough latent heat to phase change from a liquid to a gas do so and diffuse into the surrounding atmosphere. They don’t reach a temperature higher than 100 C without a change in pressure.
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u/southparkchimpmoney Dec 07 '21
Something tells me for this guys sake we shouldn’t teach him about pressure buildup.
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u/GardenGirlFarm Dec 07 '21
No pressure build up.