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[–] 58 points 1 year ago (7 children)

supercritical helium does some really weird shit, I'd call this one plausible.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    that's a pretty good point, it's literally trapped between being a liquid and a gas. If this was BattleBots, they'd let it compete once and then ban it.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    "Trapped between liquid and gas" is kind of the opposite of what a supercritical fluid is. It's more that gas and liquid states are "trapped" in a region of phase space, while supercritical fluids exist in the place where the demarcation between the two no longer exists (which is usually a far larger region than where it does).

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