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What would happen if you gently released a cubic foot of luke warm water into outer space? What would happen to the water? Would it stay together or separate into thousands of tiny particles? What if you did it to air?
Question Date: 2006-07-07
Answer 1:

Water would boil into a vapor, and then the vapor would separate out into space.

Air, being already a gas, would separate out into space. Space is a vacuum, which causes gasses to expand into it, and liquids are not stable in a vacuum, they boil.



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