Water boils at 100oC at sea level pressure.

Select the situation(s) where water will boil at greater than 100 degrees Celcius.

Select one or more:

a.
Inside a pressure cooker.

b.
In Armidale, New South Wales (980 metres high).

c.
Inside an evacuated vacuum chamber where the pressure is 10−5 atmospheric pressure.

d.
In the eye of a cyclone or hurricane.

1 answer

a. Inside a pressure cooker.

c. Inside an evacuated vacuum chamber where the pressure is 10−5 atmospheric pressure.