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Steam temperature is negative 25 Celsius when geyser is idle


Tony33D
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Tried to melt crushed ice into something more useful using heat from a steam vent.  With the steam turbine on top of this geyser the atmosphere usually becomes a vacuum when geyser is idle.  After introducing crushed ice I noticed that there is still residual steam and that at the base of the geyser  the temperature is negative 25 Celsius.  I was expecting some sort of condensation of steam to water liquid or that the atmosphere would return to vacuum like when there is no crushed ice in the room.

 

After playing more I suspect that it had something to do with the extreme temperature of the crushed ice.  When the crushed ice warmed closer to 0 Celsius some steam converted to liquid but for quite a long time steam existed but it was only a small quantity maybe a few milligrams.

steam room crushed ice issue.jpg

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Steps to Reproduce

Enclose a steam vent and introduce crushed ice




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Yes, this can happen when gas concentration is very low. I don't know the cause but this seems rather intentional.

EDIT: However I do think it seems rather strange the steam has that temperature in an enclosed box. You should check the temperature of those neutronium tiles. If it seems unusual, the bug is more about neutronium exchanging heat while it shouldn't. That or the ice was there prior, idk if you put it there.

Edited by SpomJ

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Elements require a thermal update from other elements to phase change. Elements <1g will not exchange heat with other elements. However, they do exchange heat with entities. Hence, exchanging heat with just entities will not cause them to phase change even if the temperatures indicate they should (This is also how you get food to be deep frozen in rock gas/gold gas)

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