Can Extreme Pressure Turn Gases into Liquids or Solids?

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In summary, the conversation discusses the possibility of creating a liquid or solid by putting enough pressure on a gas, using water as an example. It is then questioned how to determine the pressure at which this would occur.
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im wondering in theory couldn't you put so much presure on a gas that the molocules couldn't move therefore creating a liquid or a solid ( i realize this would take a lot of pressure) but would it result in a liquid or no??
 
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Of course, this happens all the time. Just look at a phase diagram for a substance, like water:

http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html

If you increase the pressure on water vapor while maintaining its temperature, it'll turn first into water, then into ice.

- Warren
 
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If I have liquid nitrogen contained in an extremely strong sealed container at room temperature, should I assume that the pressure is right at the boundary between liquid and solid nitrogen? If this is not the case, then how do I determine the pressure (quasi-theoretically)?

phase: liquid (i.e. density >> N2 gas at rm. temp.)
temperature: 300 K
pressure: ?
 

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Pressureizing refers to the process of increasing the pressure of a gas or liquid in a container. Liquid, on the other hand, is a state of matter that has a fixed volume but takes the shape of its container.

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