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That’s not obvious because of the ultra low pressure.
by evanb 5y ago
That’s not obvious because of the ultra low pressure.
- bigyikes 5y agoAgreed. I haven’t thought about this stuff since taking gen chem in college, so I went and looked up the phase diagram for Neon, as an example. At low pressures, it looks like as little as 15 Kelvin is enough to make Neon a gas.
- Retric 5y agoHowever, deep space is 2.7 Kelvin. Though of course it gets much hotter near stars and even simply being inside a galaxy is enough to hit 10-20 Kelvin.