Ammonia In Space
by Jeremy Williams on Feb.25, 2016, under News
It is rare that people within the world will ever physically see liquid anhydrous ammonia existing in nature, it is even rarer for people to see it exist in it’s sublimation state of a solid. This is at conditions below it’s triple point. For liquid ammonia to exist on earth standard atmospheric pressure it must be colder than -28 degrees F. For ammonia to represent a frozen solid, it must be below -107.9 degrees F at standard atmospheric pressures.
When astronauts attempt to connect a new section to the ISS, a deadly ammonia leak threatens the safety of the entire crew. Astronaut Robert Lee Curbeam Jr. must stop the flow of the dangerous chemical.
[youtube width=”480″ height=”320″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc0UzKAkvo0[/youtube]
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