Water in a Curling Rink
John Minnaar - Scottish Curling-Ice Group
Mar 08, 2006
Water is the only material on earth commonly found as gas, liquid and solid. In a curling rink it is found as a gas in the air, as a liquid in fog or condensation and during flooding and pebbling, and as a solid in ice. From the phase diagram of water below, it is clear that water can exist as all three, or as any of these, around 0ºC (273ºK). There is also a fourth form of water, supercritical, that only exists under extreme pressure and temperature, which will not be further discussed here.
Published March 2006.
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