On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 21:51, Henry Spencer wrote: > (For quite fundamental reasons, hydrogen essentially acts as if it was > considerably warmer than it is. Liquid hydrogen is halfway to being a > gas: light, quite compressible, very low viscosity -- less than that of > room-temperature air! -- and easily boiled. And solid hydrogen is halfway > to being a liquid: soft, amorphous, and easily melted.)
Hmmm, is the definition of a liquid as being an incompressible fluid naive then, is it somwhat inappropriate to call it "liquid" hydrogen, or is there something funky going on with gas bubbles in the liquid that let us still call it a liquid even though it's compressible?
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