• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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      8 months ago

      There are a lot of different mechanisms but basically the water and acid together form a weak bond that is harder to freeze than each separately until it reaches a point that the ideal ratio is passed over, then the trend reverses, and the jumps are the molecules becoming reactive again because it turns out Sulfuric Acid is pretty volatile stuff. Also, when fully dissolved, the atoms of some molecules can lose their ionic bonds and instead bond loosely with the water itself, allowing them to have different properties than the solute alone and that would explain why a solution of many elements would have multiple peaks on a graph of their properties.

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      My uneducated gut feeling is that it’s due to the ratio of water and how the water molecules interact with the acid. Other acids have similar curves (in that they aren’t a smooth curve).

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    8 months ago

    And that’s at fixed pressure, otherwise the graph turns 3D and whoever has to format it starts looking longingly at the window

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      8 months ago

      And then we have fluids with multiple substances and you might need higher dimensions

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    8 months ago

    Better is Acetic acid

    Water itself is also fine. In space what ocurres with water? Does it freeze or evaporate?

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      The vacuum would cause it to evaporate, but since the higher energy molecules escape first it would freeze and then sublimate to nothing

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      Depends on temperature and pressure. This diagram doesn’t go that low, but I would guess it’s a solid in the near vacuum of space based on what I know of space ice like Saturns rings and comet tails.

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        Depends on how far out it is from the nearest star. Inside the orbit of jupiter exposed ice will sublimate into steam thanks to heating from sunlight, outside it remains ice. This is actually what a comet is, namely a ball of ice from the outer solar system orbiting in close to the sun and sublimating off. The steam is so loosely bound thanks to the tiny gravity of the comet that the solar wind blows it away, creating the visable tail.

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        Yes, Water itself has a pretty weird freezing diagram, but meltin diagrams are already weird, even in metals as I remeber this from Iron, iron carbid. Melting always depends on several factors, pressure, depending of added substances…

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    8 months ago

    The way the graph could potentially form a pattern of smaller and smaller intervals if it weren’t 0-100% makes me wonder if this implies the existence of a theoretical acid that constantly shift between states.

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    Imagine this, but with a sample set that can’t be easily replicated and no one believes that you didn’t doctor them somehow. Not fun.

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    That’s a phase diagram, there’s probably lots of cool things going on in the solid state below that line. Probably different ratio solids at each peak. 1:4 3:2 etc. The % are goofy because it is reported by weight but behaves based on count.