On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 07:55:48PM -0800, James McEnanly wrote: > > >From what I've been reading on Supercritical Co2 > http://p2library.nfesc.navy.mil/P2_Opportunity_Handbook/5_17.html, > it is an excellent organic solvent, but I don't know > how well it would do on the types of deposits the > rovers have been finding
I have been abstaining from that thread, since being off-topic for Europa (yeah, as a matter of fact I'm a chemist, albeit not a geologist/geochemist). Liquid CO2 is one thing, supercritical CO2 is another beast entirely. Look at the phase diagram: http://www.che.gatech.edu/ssc/eckert/prospectus/ngso3c/sld012.htm -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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