Deliquescing salts taking up moisture from the Mars atmosphere: Difference between revisions
Deliquescing salts taking up moisture from the Mars atmosphere (edit)
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As humidity is raised further, more and more of the mixture becomes liquid. Eventually the upper, curved line is reached - and at that point, the entire mixture will be in its liquid phase.
Similarly if the axis is temperature - then as the temperature is raised, first part of the mixture will go liquid, at a temperature corresponding to the optimal mixture of the salts, and then when the upper curved line is reached, the entire mixture will be liquid. However, the eutectic point for a mixture of several salts with water is normally close to the eutectic for the salt with the lowest eutectic point with water <ref name="TonerCatling2014"/>.
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