Does steam rise in a vacuum (on earth)?
Posted on : 02-09-2010 | By : cherexposed | In : steam vacuum reviews
If you had a large vacuum and evaporated water would the steam rise or would gravity keep it at the bottom of the vacuum. I am having a very difficult time finding sources for this information, so please post links if you find a site that says anything about gases in a vacuum.
Im not interested in steam in zero gravity, just in a vacuum + gravity.
I obviously meant a vacuum other then the steam.
No, it won’t rise. Steam rises due to the buoyant force exerted on it by the surrounding gases (like air), because it is hotter and less dense. But if there is no surrounding gas, like in vacuum, it will remain at the bottom due to the gravitational pull.
Not sure but steam is only produced when the air is saturated with water in gas form so if there is steam then there is no longer a vacuum.
You can’t have steam and a vacuum.
The gas would fill the void, meaning no more vacuum
the steam will expand and fill the vacuum. if less steam is there it will be very sparse. but it will fill the whole vacuum space evenly