[ELI5] Can one physically compress water, like with a cyclinder of water with a hydraulic press on the top, completely water tight, pressing down on it, and what would happen to the water?

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[ELI5] Can one physically compress water, like with a cyclinder of water with a hydraulic press on the top, completely water tight, pressing down on it, and what would happen to the water?

In: 1967

Answer 1

In your typical applications (car lifts, construction equipment) the fluids (they don’t use water, they use oils instead, but the principle is the same) will not get enough pressure to be altered, somewhere else in the system (metal cylinder, rubber hose, etc.) will break before the fluids are altered.