What do the sections between the lines on the phase diagram below represent?

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Ryuu
Aug 10, 2017

The way I interpret this graph is the range of factors/conditions that influence states of matter of water to change.

The lines simply represent the border between each state.

For example, for water to be in a solid state, the temperature can vary from #~10^oC# to #0.01^oC#, as long as the (air) pressure is somewhere between #0# #"atm"# to #~~2#.

The independent variable corresponds to the dependent variable.

Hope this helps :)

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