What happens when you boil water, in space?

Hey,


I recently wrote an article about what would happen when you boiled water in space. It's one of those things that you think "If I ever go to space it would be cool to...", however this information could be useful to astronaughts in an actual useful way.

I also explain how you should go about boiling it in the most efficient way, because if you try in the conventional way of heating from the bottom, it will not work.

Before you read the article, try to imagine in your mind what would happen.

What happens when you boil water, in space?

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Thanks,


Hecky

 

Wow, never have thought about this ever. But now I do think about it, it is interesting to think about this, I guess heat wouldn't rise.

 

Thanks, Millar

 

This is why they go to space to see what happens when wather boils lol

 

Nice article, I'll use it when I go in space, just gotta get $30 million lol

 

Thanks for reading, James, W3bmaster!

 

Will the water boil at all?

 

Yep, read the article and find out, it does boil, but the bubble settles forming one bubble at the bottom, therefore acting as an insulator, so it is difficult, but the sollution is explained in the article.

 

That's pretty interesting, thanks for sharing.

 

I'm thinking that the boiling point is inversely proportional to the pressure (Charles' Law I believe) and since there's no pressure in space, due to their being no atmosphere, it will never boil - it will just remain in one clump getting increasingly warm. I believe. Possibly.

 

ok, ok...but how does this affect my Ramen noodles

do we have a go no go for lunch?

 

Basicly gravity makes heavy things fall to the bottom.

Heat makes atoms hit harder and fly apart.

So without gravity, the excited water will not be pushed upward. Then it will hit cooler atoms and transfer energy... So this will make a ring around the heat source.

Next question... If we dig a hole through the middle of the Earth and throw a tennis ball down the hole, where will the ball hit the walls of this hole and where will the ball stop?

 

Video of water boiling in outer space.

 

you think spinning it would help? I have never heard that theory.

The water comes to a boil very quickly in space though, at first anyways, than it either burns up the heater or continues to pull in smaller area of heated water into one giant bubble.

good article, I dugg it because it was interesting.

 

Yep, as explained in the article, I rekon that if you spin the container, the water can travel to the outside, and then the bubbles in the centre could be sucked out through a pipe of some sort, then if the heating elements are on the side of the container, the water will be heated.




Please don't forget to Digg the article, thanks.



Hecky

 

Wow wht a unique idea of writing something about this matter. Never had thought about it before.

Good luck and thanks for sharing

 

article dugged (is this the right term?).
Nice info by the way.

 

Thanks both of you, it does take some thinking about, dosent it?

 

Nice article buddy. I will use it if I will go in space or moon.

 

Ah well, the moon is different - it has gravity - about 1/10 that of the Earth.