If you compress water strong enough will it turn into ice?
In theory, if you compress water strong enough would it turn solid and into ice? If not what would water become if you compress it strong enough?
In theory, if you compress water strong enough would it turn solid and into ice? If not what would water become if you compress it strong enough?
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Yes, it just depends on the amount of pressure. Here is one example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_VII
Anonymous
Sure, it will rise the freezing point temperature up !!!
Jesus
Theoretically if you compress water enough you lower it's freezing point and water can become ice at room temperature
az_lender
The answer is an unqualified "yes." If you look at Bill Russell's nice phase diagram, you'll see that even at 400C, a pressure of a few hundred thousand atmospheres would suffice to compress the water to ice. That pressure may sound high, but consider that the pressure in the core of the sun is around 250 billion atmopheres. What actually happens in an environment like that is that any water would be pushed out in favor of substances with higher densities. Devices on earth have been constructed to exert pressures of several million atmospheres, so could compress fairly hot water to ice.
billrussell42
at what temperature? at room temp, 25ºC, yes, if the pressure is
greater than 1 GPa (10000 bar). That would be ice VII (ice has many different crystalline structures)
but it would go back to liquid as soon as the pressure is released.
it would change to vapor (boil) if the pressure dropped below 3 kPa (normal 1 atm pressure is 100 kPa)