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When you increase pressure aren't you also increasing temp? So even though the ambient temp may be 59 isn't the localized temp where the atoms are being crushed
by sabujp 6y ago
When you increase pressure aren't you also increasing temp? So even though the ambient temp may be 59 isn't the localized temp where the atoms are being crushed super high? Which is also the opposite of how i thought superconductors work, i.e. the liquid nitrogen dumped on the superconducting semiconductor experiment that phys. prof's love to do.
- konschubert 6y agoNo, pressure is independent of temperature. If you take a gas as an example: When you compress a gas, temperature increases, but you can cool it down again while maintaining pressure. (And then when you release the pressure it gets even cooler, that’s how a fridge works.)
- sabujp 6y agohow do you cool a gas while increasing pressure? by PV=nRT you have to reduce volume linearly.
- konschubert 6y agoYes, you reduce the volume.