pressure decrease at constant temp

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MasterDental

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Hello

CAn someone please explain this to me ?.. It appeared in test 5 of BC, but I didnt quite understand the why of it. Thx

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You're going from any point on the graph straight down. Hence the constant temp and decreasing pressure. So if you go from a region of solid and follow an imaginary line straight down, you can go straight to a gas phase (region). This is sublimation. You could also go from any point in a liquid phase (region) following an imaginary line straight down to a solid or to a gas. This is crystallization and vaporization. It's just reading a graph and remembering the names of the phase changes.