True_me4 t1_is0zpek wrote on October 12, 2022 at 2:50 PM

100*1.29 [g/L]=129 [g/L]=0.129[kg/L]. Air would still be less dense than water there. The required pressure to make air the same density of water is 827 atm. However, air will probably dissolve into the water before reaching that pressure.

Cedar- OP t1_is11a3g wrote on October 12, 2022 at 3:00 PM

I made a mistake. Pressure being about 1,000x means density would be about 1,000x, not 100. That's where I got the math of 1000*1.29 [g/L]=1,290 [g/L]=1.29 [kg/L]

PenguinSwordfighter t1_is17s3x wrote on October 12, 2022 at 3:44 PM

But the water around the air would also be compressed by the water on top of it.

dirtyuncleron69 t1_is1acjl wrote on October 12, 2022 at 4:01 PM

Air is much more compressible than water is.

2000bar is 200Mpa, the units are different on those charts, but by 10,000 bar air will be more dense than water at around 20C.

E: I extrapolated poorly, read the response to /u/Origin_of_Mind

looks like these are the wrong charts and below 1Gpa water will always be more dense.

Origin_of_Mind t1_is20b1a wrote on October 12, 2022 at 6:50 PM

Nice plots!

>by 10,000 bar air will be more dense than water at around 20C

Why do you think so?

At 10,000 bar and close to the room temperature, the plot for the density of air gives 1.16 g/cm3.

But if we extrapolate the plot for water beyond the shown 200 MPa, it hints at the densities around 1.2-1.4 g/cm^(3) (the correct value from NIST tables (pdf) is 1.23 g/cm^(3)).

As far as compressibility of stuff goes, water is fairly compressible -- its bulk modulus (2 GPa) is similar to the compressibility of wood along the grain. It is a hundred times more compressible than steel, but even steel is compressed several-fold at megabar pressures in explosions.

dirtyuncleron69 t1_is21hfj wrote on October 12, 2022 at 6:58 PM

you are right that I am extrapolating off of the water density chart I posted, and even so poorly.

Goes from 1000 to 1080 kg/m³ over 200 Mpa, by the time you get to 1000Mpa it would be 1400 kg/m³ and the nearly equivalent air temperature goes to around 1150 kg/m³

The log plot threw me off. This would be even worse for salt water since it is more dense than pure water which is the chart I have.

amfibbius t1_is1he5y wrote on October 12, 2022 at 4:47 PM

Water is basically incompressible, or at least substantially less compressible than air, even though it’s at the same high pressure.

wintrmt3 t1_is1ac88 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 4:01 PM

Only very slightly, it's not even 1% denser at that pressure.