From your understanding of the relationship between temperature and pressure, what temperature would boiling water attain in the open pot of a backpacker camping at 10,000 feet above sea level where the air pressure is about third of the pressure at sea level? does water boil faster or slower at that elevation?

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Briana Figueroa

Physics

30 April, 09:57

From your understanding of the relationship between temperature and pressure, what temperature would boiling water attain in the open pot of a backpacker camping at 10,000 feet above sea level where the air pressure is about third of the pressure at sea level? does water boil faster or slower at that elevation?

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Pedro Maddox · Answer 1

Water will boil faster at a higher elevation. Air pressure affects the temperature at which water boils quickly but cooking times will take longer at higher altitudes. This is due to a decrease in atmospheric pressure. An example would be putting an egg to boil. Water boils at lower temperature but the egg involves heating a food to a certain temperature, so, cooking would take longer.