Learning about the phases of water with a vacuum chamber
To round up the blog series about the vacuum chamber I am going to do a very cool experiment. I will show you how to boil water at lower temperature than normal. I am sure you know that water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius and boils at 100 degrees, but this is only true at sea level. For example, if you climb Mt Everest and try to boil an egg, it will take you way longer because up there water boils at only 68 degrees. The cool thing is that with my vacuum chamber I can achieve even lower pressures than Mt Everest, which is like climbing even higher. This also means that I can bring the boiling point of water even lower. To understand why all this happens you need to understand a phase diagram. To see my explanation and the experiment make sure you watch the video. During this project I also got to learn about the critical point and supercritical fluids that occur at much higher pressures than it is safe for me to do at home. If you are interested to learn about that topic you can watch ...