Meaning: A treeless grassy plain. Classified under: Nouns denoting spatial position. Hypernyms (prairie is a kind of...): grassland (land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life). Instance hyponyms:
In thermodynamics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which the three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium. For example, the triple point of mercury occurs at a temperature of â38.83440 Â°C and a pressure of 0.2 m Pa.
Triple points mark conditions at which three different phases can coexist. For example, the water phase diagram has a triple point corresponding to the single temperature and pressure at which solid, liquid, and gaseous water can coexist in a stable equilibrium.he axes correspond to the pressure and temperature. The phase diagram shows, in pressureâtemperature space, the lines of equilibrium or phase boundaries between the three phases of solid, liquid, and gas.