Above the critical temperature and/or critical pressure, “fluid” is the preferred term, because there is no meaningful distinction between liquid/vapor/gas. ...
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The difference between gas and vapor is, in one sense, conventional. Considering the three ... There is, however, a definite distinction between them. “A vapor condenses very readily to the liquid state under small changes of temperature or pressure or both, and constantly does so under ordinary conditions in nature.
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The most common example of a vapor is water vapor (gas phase water) at room temperature and one atmosphere of pressure. ... We can classify most materials as solids, liquids or gases. The primary distinction between these phases deals with the attractions/forces between the atoms or molecules that make up the material.
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The greenhouse effect is the heating of the surface of a planet or moon due to the presence of an atmosphere containing gases that absorb and emit infrared radiation. Thus, greenhouse gases trap hea...
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Above the critical temperature and/or critical pressure, "fluid" is the preferred term, because there is no meaningful distinction between liquid/vapor/gas. But this is not an if-and-only-if proposition;
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Vapor Pressure:  The pressure of the vapor over a liquid at equilibrium.  The distinction between a gas and a vapor is as follows:  a gas is a substance at a higher temperature than its boiling point, a vapor is a gaseous form of matter at a temperature below its boiling point.
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This effect was most recently documented last October in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, when researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station published the results of a study of the link between global average temperatures and water vapor between 2003 and 2008.
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Water vapour is indeed the most dominant greenhouse gas. ... The amplifying effect of water vapor has been observed in empirical studies such as Soden 2001 which observed the global cooling after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo. The cooling led to atmospheric drying which amplified the temperature drop.
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See Lines With Other Classes and Within This Class, Gas or Vapor Dispensors, in the main class definition for the distinction between dispensing of gases and vapors, and the use of gases and vapors to dispense other materials and for notes to other classes having gas or vapor dispensing, per se, or in various combinations.
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Now let's expand on the distinction between chemical reactions and physical changes that was alluded to earlier. ... For example, if you create something new from two liquids and it happens to be a gas, then you will get gas bubbles. There will be a new material with a new phase that wasn't there before. Also,
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