April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
193 pages
5h 53m
English
Water near its critical point possesses properties very different from those of ambient liquid water.
Phillip E. Savage (1999)
Supercritical water is a special and very extraordinary solvent, as it consists of polar molecules but behaves like a nonpolar solvent.
A. Kruse and E. Dinjus (2012a)
The learning objectives for this chapter are as follows.
| Learning Objectives | Section Numbers |
| Understand the fundamental properties of water and the basic features of the phase | 5.1 |
| diagram for water, with a special focus on the regions for superheated water. | 5.1.1 |
| Become familiar with the terms related to the phase diagrams and superheated water. | 5.1.2 |
| Become familiar ... |
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