Deliquescing salts taking up moisture from the Mars atmosphere: Difference between revisions

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Line 46: 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~~A ifsimilar concept applies to salts dissolved in water. In this case it's called the eutectic point. 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~~salt with water, 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"/>. ====Effect of this====