Condensation: Quick Facts

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Diagram showing the phase changes of matter with three circles labeled solid, liquid, and gas. Arrows indicate transitions: melting and freezing between solid and liquid, evaporation and condensation between liquid and gas, and sublimation and deposition between solid and gas.

Figure 3: The two general cooling paths by which a group of atoms can condense. Route 1 is the path to the crystalline state; route 2 is the rapid-quench path to the amorphous solid state.

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Water cycle distillation melting sublimation nucleus Condensation nucleus Freezing nucleus phase change heat transfer vaporization evaporation sublimation convection latent heat phase diagram phase rule thermal conduction

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Key People

Carl von Linde

Carl von Linde

German engineer

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

British physicist and chemist

Kamerlingh Onnes

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Dutch physicist

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Osborne Reynolds

British engineer and physicist

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Louis-Paul Cailletet

French physicist

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