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WTRV not condensing at 100C

  • dyaomaster     13th Dec 2018 Member 0 Permalink

    Instead, it tends to turn into water at closer to 97.85C.

     

    Is this intentional or a bug?

  • NF     13th Dec 2018 Member 0 Permalink

    @dyaomaster (View Post)

     Water starts turning into water vapor at 97.85° C, I have noticed this just by messing with uranium and water. So I highly believe it's intentional, not a bug.

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    When I first noticed it.

    Edited once by NUCLEAR_FOX. Last: 13th Dec 2018
  • jacob1     13th Dec 2018 Developer 0 Permalink
    It definitely looks like a bug, but I would guess it is intentional. WATR turns to WTRV at 373K = 99.85C, but WTRV turns into WATR at 371K = 97.85C. It's most likely like this to simulate latent heat, where it takes a little extra heat to cause a state transition. It makes it harder for WATR/WTRV to rapidly change states this way.

    I just wonder if it should be doing this at 99C/101C instead of both temperatures being under 100C, and not integers.
  • NF     13th Dec 2018 Member 0 Permalink

    @jacob1 (View Post)

     I was two numbers off, dang it! But I think it works even if it is a bug. 

  • MachineMan     24th Feb 2019 Member 0 Permalink

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