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Who told you that water can not exceed its boiling point? It happens every day! Every day someone heats a cup of water in the microwave. It reaches around 110 C or 230F. Then when they drop a teaspoon full of instant coffee into the cup, it boils all over the place. The superheated water is dropping down to its boiling point. Water can exceed its boiling point.
Water can also exceed its boiling point in an enclosed pressurized container. One such machine was called "The steam locomotive." One item used on the cook stove was called "The Pressure Cooker." These heated water above the boiling point.
However, under standard conditions, when water begins to boil its vapor pressure will equal the air pressure. Any attempt to make the water hotter would increase its vapor pressure. When water gives off vapor, that cools down the temperature of the water. So the air pressure determines boiling point.
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Does the temperature of the water change the boiling point?
The boiling point of water depends only on pressure, not ambient temperature. The only correlation between climate temperature and boiling point would come about from the fact that cold climates in temperate parts of the Earth are usually at higher elevations than warmer climates and therefore have lower atmospheric pressure.
When a teaspoonful of sugar is added to water in a breaker the sugar dissolves?
This would be a mixture, because you could easily separate the water and sugar again by boiling the water.
How do you calculate melting points and boiling points by using enthalpy and entropy?
Cant
How do you separate salt and water when there mixed?
You cant
What is it called when it cant dissolve in water?
Insoluble
How can matter be classified by its melting or boiling point?
it cant!!
Does the temperature of the water change the boiling point?
The boiling point of water depends only on pressure, not ambient temperature. The only correlation between climate temperature and boiling point would come about from the fact that cold climates in temperate parts of the Earth are usually at higher elevations than warmer climates and therefore have lower atmospheric pressure.
What temperature does oxygen melt at?
The melting point of oxygen is -361.8 degrees F (-218.8 degrees C). The boiling point of oxygen is -297.31 degrees F (-182.95 degrees C).
Properties of compounds with giant ionic structures?
High melting point High Boiling point Conducts electricity when molten or dissolved Cant conduct electricity when solid Example Sodium chloride
Why cant water boil over 100 degrees?
Because that is the temperature at which water boils at the atmospheric pressure at sea level, which is 1 atmosphere. It is the maximum boiling point possible for water unless it is placed under pressure.
Explain how water can transfer energy by conduction and by convection?
It cant. proven point
If you heat a liquid and measure the temperature at which it boils you are measuring what property?
I think it is a Physical Property Because Physical you can bring things back but chemical you cant. love is real. lol
What will happen if water cools below the dew point?
cant figure it out.... impossible question!
What do you do if someone hurt your finger and its possibly broken and you cant go to the doctor?
wrap it up in ice and make sure you omve it constantly and dip it in boiling water
What is the melting point of water at sea level and what happens to this point at altitudes above sea level?
i think you mean what is the melting point of ice as water cant melt. the melting point of ice at sea level is 100 degres celsius
When a teaspoonful of sugar is added to water in a breaker the sugar dissolves?
This would be a mixture, because you could easily separate the water and sugar again by boiling the water.
How do you calculate melting points and boiling points by using enthalpy and entropy?
Cant
