Re:Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor
by enkid on Friday May 14, 2021 @09:04AM
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What is the typical state of matter at 3 kelvin in deep space?
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Re:Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor
by Sharlin on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:32AM
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Most matter in deep space is individual ions, atoms, or molecules, so has no well-defined phase. Then there's solid dust particles which are made of all sorts of stuff including silicates, organic compounds, and ices of different elements.
Re:Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor
by eloff on Friday May 14, 2021 @09:22AM
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Solid. Everything except hydrogen and helium would be in a solid state I think.
Re:Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor
by evanb on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:05AM
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That’s not obvious because of the ultra low pressure.
Re:Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor
by bigyikes on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:33AM
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Agreed. I haven’t thought about this stuff since taking gen chem in college, so I went and looked up the phase diagram for Neon, as an example.
At low pressures, it looks like as little as 15 Kelvin is enough to make Neon a gas.