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.
Figure 11.24 General shape for a phase diagram of a system exhibiting three phases: gas, liquid, and solid. Point A, where the three curves intersect, is known as the triple point.