Is it possible to compress water?

The answer is yes, You can compress water, or almost any material. However, it requires a great deal of pressure to accomplish a little compression. For that reason, liquids and solids are sometimes referred to as being incompressible.

Is it possible to compress a liquid into a solid?

Dave – The simple answer is, yes you can. You’d need a ridiculous amount of force, but it is possible. When this happens a different form of ice is formed, called ice IV, which is a different crystal structure to conventional ice.

Is it harder to freeze water under pressure?

Air pressure certainly affects the freezing temperature. The higher the pressure, the lower the freezing temperature. Since it will take water longer to reach the lower temperature, I’d expect that it would freeze more slowly. There are two ways that the higher pressure lowers the freezing temperature.

What happens when salt water is frozen?

Ocean water freezes at a lower temperature than freshwater. When seawater freezes, however, the ice contains very little salt because only the water part freezes. It can be melted down to use as drinking water. Sea water becomes more and more dense as it becomes colder, right down to its freezing point.

Why is compressing water impossible?

All these things are possible because water is difficult to compress – the molecules attract each other and, in their natural state, tend to stay closer together than the molecules in other liquids. The harder something is to compress, the easier it is to move it around if you apply a pressure to one side of it.

What happens to super compress water?

So the bottom line is when you compress the water, it turns into solid, the density increases apparently and it exists in one of the 16—excluding the one in your freezer—known crystalline phases of the ice.

What will happen to water if it boils?

When water is boiled, the heat energy is transferred to the molecules of water, which begin to move more quickly. Eventually, the molecules have too much energy to stay connected as a liquid. When this occurs, they form gaseous molecules of water vapor, which float to the surface as bubbles and travel into the air.

Is it possible to compress water to make ice?

Now you can compress water beyond normal pressures and end up with some very very different types of ice, but these types of ices do not exist commonly in nature. The Ice-7 quoted by one of the other posters can occur, but the problem is you need pressures that are above 3 Gpa or roughly 30,000 times Earth’s atmosphere.

Why doesn’t water freeze under extrreme pressure?

Freezing the water requires that the molecules have a chance to crystalize. Crystalizing requires that the molecules have enough elbow room to do so. It’s not that water wil NOT freeze under extrreme pressure, it’s just that water is very complex. There are actually almost a dozen forms of ice water.

What happens to water when it is compressed?

Most substances will form their normal solids if compressed, but water is one of the few substances where increasing pressure actually hinders crystallization due to water’s unique crystal structure.

Can You crystallize ice under high pressure?

If you want the kind of ice you are use to seeing…no you can not. Most substances will form their normal solids if compressed, but water is one of the few substances where increasing pressure actually hinders crystallization due to water’s unique crystal structure.