• BussyCat@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      It says in textbooks that in a vacuum water will spontaneously boil so arguing that it’s not spontaneous is wrong.

      It happens as pressure decreases but unlike conventional boiling where you can see nucleate boiling it can instead happen all at once without you adding heat to the system

      Most importantly he’s trying to argue semantics with a person who is much smarter than him and then ends it with a condescending “simple thermo”.

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      23 hours ago

      You should look up the definition of boiling.

      It isn’t that he’s wrong, it’s that his input was both unnecessary and irrelevant.