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Re:Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor by evanb on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:05AM (#27155056)
That’s not obvious because of the ultra low pressure.
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Re:Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor by bigyikes on Friday May 14, 2021 @11:33AM (#27155348)
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.

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Re:Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor by Retric on Saturday May 15, 2021 @07:15PM (#27169814)
However, deep space is 2.7 Kelvin. Though of course it gets much hotter near stars and even simply being inside a galaxy is enough to hit 10-20 Kelvin.
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