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Temperatures[]
Okay, let me get this straight. The planet Boro, at -57, is uncomfortably hot by Volus standards. But Irune is +9? I concur with the person on the Boro talk page. There is an error somewhere here. 66.71.125.56 07:09, November 2, 2013 (UTC)
- Not saying there aren't errors anywhere, but planet temperatures are not comparable per se – the atmospheric pressure needs to be taken into account. Essentially, high pressure allows for higher temperatures: note, for example, that the pressure on Irune is over 60 Earth atmospheres. On Boro, where the pressure is only 1.6 atm, ammonia's boiling point wouldn't be much higher than −33 °C. Elseweyr (talk) 11:52, November 2, 2013 (UTC)
- dunno what i'm doing, apparently if -57 is the norm in boro then factor in its atmospheric pressure (1.6 atm) and ammonia boils there at -20. thirty degree difference between siomai volus and a living one.
- for comparison:
- irune (9, 60.56 atm) = 79.8 C boiling point
- talis fia (-25, 6.15) = 16.9
- maskawa (52, 3.35) = 0.0648088 C (er, apparently volus will boil out here without suits?)
- patavig (-130, 22.4) = 52.6 C (conditional volus territory, for the sake of argument let's say it is)
- normal ammonia bp: -33.34 at 1 atm
- shit calculator reference: http://www.calctool.org/CALC/chem/substance/boiling
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- I also thought Maskawa seemed a bit off, but whatever functions that calculator uses, it can't give accurate results without knowing what substances or compounds are involved. We'd need a temperature-pressure chart for ammonia specifically, and I only threw a glance at this in my very quick and very superficial investigation. Assuming it's accurate, it still doesn't account for a wide enough range of temps/pressures, though. Elseweyr (talk) 14:42, November 2, 2013 (UTC)