Re: vapor pressure

In article <42E519FD.F97B76EE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Uncle Al <UncleAl0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Marvin wrote:
>>
>> John Doe III wrote:
>> > I don't quite understand my book's explanation for the following
question.
>> >
>> > Which one is NOT true regarding vapor pressure
>> >
>> > A. Solids have a vapor pressure (this is obviously true)
>>
>> You are right, but Uncle Al confused matters by talking about how slowly
some solids
>> vaporize at room temperature.
>
>[snip]
>
>What is the vapor pressure of diamond at 298 K temp? If it less than
>one carbon atom/liter, what does that mean? How does the surface know
>whether said atom is present or not?
>
Kind of like the VP of tungsten is such that the universe would have to be
several orders of magnitude bigger to have 1 tungsten atom in the vapor phase.
.

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