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Does hydrogen or helium freeze solid outside of a laboratory?
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The melting point of Hydrogen at atmospheric pressure is 14.01 K, for comparision the current temperature on Eris is around 18 K, so in outer KB the temperature is low enough to freeze it.
Helium cannot freeze solid at atmospheric pressure or in vacuum at all, but I wonder; could it be the component of some KBOs interiors where it is frozen by high pressure along with lower temperature? Noble gases freezing points (at 1 atm. unless specified otherwise); Helium (at 2.5 MPa): 0.95 K Neon: 24.56 K Argon: 83.80 K Krypton: 115.79 K Xenon: 161.4 K Radon: 202 K Also, another question, can be frozen chunks of these gases floating in the interstellar space near or in nebulas where solar system is being born? |
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Compression tends to heat stuff (it's the gas law), so I would not expect a lower temperature in the center of a KBO.
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However compression heat will not remain infinitely.And you have pressure of cca 2.5 MPa fairly shallow under the surface, you don't need planetary core pressures to freeze helium, 2.5 MPa is just cca 25 atmospheres.Even Venus's atmosphere has much more pressure.
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