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A typical phase diagram.The solid green line applies to most substances; the dashed green line gives the anomalous behavior of water. In thermodynamics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which the three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium. [1]
The former governor of Alaska, Walter J. Hickel, proposed a water pipeline from his state to California in 1991, [2] which was quickly criticized for being too expensive, environmentally problematic, and "too far-out". [3] The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) published a report in 1992 considering an implementation of the plan using a ...
Triple points mark conditions at which three different phases can coexist. For example, the water phase diagram has a triple point corresponding to the single temperature and pressure at which solid, liquid, and gaseous water can coexist in a stable equilibrium (273.16 K and a partial vapor pressure of 611.657 Pa).
The temperature and pressure at which ordinary solid, liquid, and gaseous water coexist in equilibrium is a triple point of water. Since 1954, this point had been used to define the base unit of temperature, the kelvin, [45] [46] but, starting in 2019, the kelvin is now defined using the Boltzmann constant, rather than the triple point of water ...
In the diagram for CO 2 the triple point is the point at which the solid, liquid and gas phases come together, at 5.2 bar and 217 K. It is also possible for other sets of phases to form a triple point, for example in the water system there is a triple point where ice I, ice III and liquid can coexist.
Increasing the pressure drives the water into the higher density phase, which causes melting. Another interesting though not unusual feature of the phase diagram is the point where the solid–liquid phase line meets the liquid–gas phase line. The intersection is referred to as the triple point. At the triple point, all three phases can coexist.
Ice, water, and water vapour can coexist at the triple point, which is exactly 273.16 K (0.01 °C) at a pressure of 611.657 Pa. [14] [15] The kelvin was defined as 1 / 273.16 of the difference between this triple point and absolute zero, [16] though this definition changed in May 2019. [17] Unlike most other solids, ice is difficult to ...
The Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant is a desalination plant in Carlsbad, California. [2][3] The San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA), the recipient of the fresh water produced by the plant, calls it "the nation’s largest, most technologically advanced and energy-efficient seawater desalination plant."