• Question: What happens to water if you compress it more and more and more... (It can't just disappear)?

    Asked by sammieblues to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 21 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Melanie Stefan

      Melanie Stefan answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Well, water would evaporate if the pressure got too high (so yes, it just disappears). Other than that, if something – anything – gets compressed more and more and more, it will end up as a black hole I think, or maybe I’m hallucinating (it’s been a while since I took physics!)

    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      If you increase the pressure on liquid water, you will eventually get to the stable solid form – of ice. Many crystalline forms of ice have been found experimentally at high pressures, and at temperatures well above zero degrees. High pressure (but cold) ice may be important on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons..

    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      Other than just being squeezed out?

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