Air pressure is about 10^5 Pa, I think, so that puts us somewhere down the
bottom area of the liquid water phase.  The story looks about the same up
to around 10^8 Pa, so we can consider this area first.

I imagine it could be possible that excessive tightening of a threaded plug
on a spherical enclosure or a steel water bottle could produce pressure in
excess of 10^8 Pa, I haven't considered what might limit that.

Moving our shaky finger leftward on the phase diagram, we may discover ice
Ih, hexagonal ice, the most well-known ice.

Ice densities are listed farther down the page.  In an enclosed
environment, density will be unable to change.  So, I'm guessing that
hexagonal ice won't be what happens.  I guess we'd get stuck on that phase
transition line, as pressure rose.

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