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Science · True or False?

Water can boil and freeze at the same time

The answer is True.

Explanation

At exactly 0.01°C and about 0.6% of normal atmospheric pressure, water reaches its "triple point", where solid, liquid and gas coexist in equilibrium, so water can visibly boil and freeze simultaneously. Fun fact: this exact point was used to define the Kelvin temperature scale at the time.

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