critical point
critical point The temperature above which a gas cannot be liquefied, regardless of the pressure, and becomes a supercritical fluid with the molecular freedom of a gas, but the density of a liquid. The critical point for water is 374°C; at that temperature the gas will liquefy under a pressure of 0.022 GPa.
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