So in a fictional world –
Can a character melt a metal if he applies the pressure (equally distributed) to a metal body? Will application of indefinite amount of pressure on a small metal eventually lead to a change in it’s state? From solid to liquid-ish?
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No. If you look at most phase diagrams for metals you’ll find that from the triple point (the temperature-pressure at which a substance exists in all three phases) the “melting/freezing” line (the line which delineates the solid and liquid zones from each other) moves to the right and (usually) in a hyperbolic exponential function.
This means for *any* given temperature, there is a pressure above which a substance will most certainly be solid. So for a theoretically “infinite” pressure there can exist no temperature that will exceed that pressure to melt the substance in question.
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