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Also Known As	critical region • critical state

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State (liquid, vapour, or both) of a fixed mass of water under varying conditions of pressure and volume; in the two-phase region (C) both saturated liquid and saturated vapour are present

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critical pressure critical temperature supercritical fluid state triple point