Re: does a siphon work in vacuum?

[Vern Lindberg <vwlsps@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU>]

On Sunday, March 14, 2004, at 04:32 PM, Chuck Britton wrote:

> BTW - I'd be tempted to say that a liquid cannot exist (in
> equilibrium) in a vacuum.
>
> It is always either totally enclosed or in contact with it's own
> vapor (at the vapor pressure of the liquid)
>
>
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The same is true of solids--they just have much lower equilibrium vapor
pressures, and therefore the approach to equilibrium is much slower!
>
Dr. Vern Lindberg
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