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[-] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 92 points 3 months ago

Dare someone smarter than me explain what the ever loving fuck is going on there?

[-] Ravi@feddit.org 23 points 3 months ago

My uneducated understanding is that the chart shows at which temperatures sulfuric acid freezes depending on the concentration. Also in my very basic understanding of physics and chemistry I would have thought that it's linear or exponential or something predictable and not that jumpy.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In normal cases you'd see two curves going away from pure compounds downwards to a common minimum, which is eutectic point. It's generally only vaguely predictable, but always monotonic