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maximus
Jun27-03, 10:55 PM
this is going to sound like an odd question, but which element has its boiling point and its freezing point closest together? by which i mean, which transitions through the phases the fastest?

LURCH
Jun28-03, 06:56 AM
Perhaps a more complex question than yopu realise. For example; water has a state known as "triple point (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/blynds/3pt.html)", in which all three phases are present in the same environment and at the same temperature.

On Radioactive Waves
Jun29-03, 02:42 AM
Same pressure and temperature.

And what about those short lived radioactive elements? We will never know about those either,or at least for a good while.

Another God
Jun30-03, 04:31 AM
How about rephrasing the question to "At atmospheric pressure...What element has the closest phase change?"