Answer to Question #301244 in General Chemistry for Denden

Question

1. What does the line from Point B to Point D indicate?

2. What does the line from Point B to Point C indicate?

3. What does the line from Point A to Point B indicate?

4. What happens at the critical point?

Answer 1

critical point, in physics, the set of conditions under which a liquid and its vapour become identical (see phase diagram). ... The liquid expands and becomes less dense until, at the critical point, the densities of liquid and vapour become equal, eliminating the boundary between the two phases.