Using the phase diagram for CO_2, what phase is carbon dioxide in at -60"^@C and 15 atm pressure?

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Truong-Son N.
Jul 20, 2017

Well, consult the phase diagram.

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And then you literally just read it like any other graph: find your x coordinate and find your y coordinate.

(x,y) -= (P,T) = ("15 atm", -60^@ "C")

And one should easily see that "CO"_2 is a solid at this T and P, as it should be, left of its triple point temperature but higher up than the triple point pressure.

We call this dry ice; once obtained and brought into a laboratory, it spontaneously sublimes.

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