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For a liquid to be a liquid, rather than a gas, it needs to be held together by intermolecular forces. Which means it will have some amount of surface tension. I therefore dismiss this hypothetical as physically unrealistic! :P
supercritical helium does some really weird shit, I'd call this one plausible.
Supercritical fluids are more like a gas than a liquid. Their lack of surface tension means they'll diffuse throughout whatever container you put them in, so they can't really be "poured" like a liquid can. They're actually a pretty good example of why liquids need surface tension to be liquid.
that's a pretty good point, it's literally trapped between being a liquid and a gas. If this was BattleBots, they'd let it compete once and then ban it.
"Trapped between liquid and gas" is kind of the opposite of what a supercritical fluid is. It's more that gas and liquid states are "trapped" in a region of phase space, while supercritical fluids exist in the place where the demarcation between the two no longer exists (which is usually a far larger region than where it does).
I think they meant to say superfluid helium.
Superfluid. It can be supercritical, but superfluid is the special thing for helium.
You do some pretty weird shit.
Oh, snaaaaaap.
supercritical
does some really weird shit
I'm no geologist, but I could have guessed that without any further specifics 😉
Unless its a hydrocarbon product, which can (and does) spread over surfaces it can't mix with/soak into in single molecules thick sheets.
Aha! But languical constructs allow and do allow hyperboles! So it could be argued that the colleague asked for the minimum allowed by our bindings law!
I request a motion to dismiss your dismissal :>