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Can gases be expanded more than liquids? |
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Gases expand in proportion to the change in absolute temperature (deg kelvin). Thus if you took a volume of a gas at say 0 deg C (273 kelvin) and heated it to 273 deg C, that is doubling the degrees kelvin, keeping the pressure constant, the volume would double.
Water on the other hand has a coefficient of expansion of 207 x 10-6 per deg Kelvin, so doubling its absolute temperature from 0 degC to 273 degC would only increase its volume by 5.65 x 10-2 = 0.0565, or 5.65 percent
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