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Subject: Will H2O freeze at a warmer temperature if it is in a vacuum (low press.)?

Date: Thu Mar 8 16:08:58 2001
Posted by ron
Grade level: nonaligned School: spokane comm. college
City: spokane State/Province: wa Country: usa
Area of science: Physics
ID: 984085738.Ph
Message:

My co-worker has set up a demo for children where he uses a propane 
bottle,insulated lunch box,propane burner and water. The propane bottle and 
water are placed inside the insulated lunch box w/ a hose fed through a hole in 
the box to the burner. This demonstration is to show how water can be boiled on 
one end of this unit and cooled on the other. I agree until he says that if he 
was to pull a vacuum (low pressure)on the box that the water would freeze at a 
warmer temperature. Is he correct?


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