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[–] 27 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Water doesn't sublimate. Sublimation is solid to gaseous phase change.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, evaporate would be the appropriate word here, while sublimate would be for room temperature ice, which I don't know if it is ice that does it or if there is a microscopic film of water that then evaporates.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Technically, water does sublimate, just not at normal earth pressures. Below 0.6 kPa it transitions straight from solid to gas.

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