Molecular-scale phase boundaries: A 'primitive' liquid-gas transition
Monday, September 14, 2015 - 07:30
in Physics & Chemistry
One of the first things taught in school science classes is that there are three states of matter - solids, liquids and gases. Bizarrely, however, at high pressures and temperatures there is a critical point above which the distinction between a liquid and a gas is lost and a single 'supercritical fluid' is formed.