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What would happen if the air was above waters boiling point?
Lets say the temperatures were 230 degrees F. Would there be bubbles on the surface? Id imagine the whole ocean wouldn't boil at the same time because can be 36,000 feet deep and it averages 10,000 feet deep and it is cold at those depths. So would it just be the surface that bubbles or something? Lets also say that the day time temperature was 230 degrees F and the night time temperature were 150 degrees F what would happen then? Would it remain liquid?
4 Answers
- ?Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
What you propose is impossible unless you image the air being heated over land and wonder what would happen as it blew over the ocean.
Why? Because if heating occurred of the air over the ocean, as soon as it tried to go from 211F to 213F (to avoid describing exactly 212F) the evaporation of the water would take so much heat out of the air that the temperature could not rise higher. The surface might be seething and moisture might be rising rapidly (carrying off more heat) but no bubbling would occur.
Why? Because water boils and bubbles because it is heated from below and the bubbles are steam (water vapor) formed by local heating and rising through the water which is at or just below 212F If you heat a pot of water and look down into it, you can seen at one point, that bubbles start to form and rise from the bottom and disappear as they are cooled (later when they break the surface what is happening is concealed in the mass of bubbles.)
The amount of heat absorbed by water converting to vapor is astounding - you need to learn more about it
- ?Lv 68 years ago
The lower you go in the ocean the hotter water must be to boil because of the pressure. At 30,000 feet deep water boils at 800 degree's F. However, if the ground level air on earth would stay a 230 around the entire world then year after year the water would get warmer in deeper parts of the ocean. Therefore, the top of fresh water lakes will boil, but it would need to be hotter for salt water to boil and again the deeper you go the water pressure increases therefore, the temp of boiling water goes up.
- SylviaLv 48 years ago
It depends only on the pressure
The only factor that determines the boiling point of water at any altitude is the barometric pressure (the altitude itself doesn't actually matter, it's just that at higher elevation, the barometric pressure usually drops). However, water will boil at two different temperatures at the same elevation if you are in a high pressure weather system instead of a low pressure system.
- Anonymous8 years ago
the heat would transfer from the air to the ocean and the ocean would get a little warmer but the air would go back to normal. if the air kept being heated up by like the sun and etc. then the ocean would keep getting warmer until it started to boil and then there wouldn't be ocean anymore :)