Can water in a pressurised contained, which does not allow for the liquid to expand, heat up?
In: Chemistry
Liquids are usually considered incompressible, but that’s technically not true. They are compressible, it just takes so much pressure that we don’t notice. So if you put 4°C water (a its densest point) and put it into an infinitely strong container with no airbubbles, you could heat it up without having the water expand – but the pressure would be extremely high.
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