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Can a liquid be compressed?

Has anyone seen that advert on TV appearing regularly ny Exxon Mobil recently. The presenter is explaining that they extract the gas change it into a liquid and then compress it 6 times. I can understand if they had compressed the gas by 6 times but the liquid?

rov1200 Sat 26/07/08 07:58

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bod75
Sat 26/07/08
09:08

Have not seen the advert, but no-you cannot compress a liquid, that is the principle on which hydraulics is based!

wildwood
Sat 26/07/08
10:34

You can compress some liquids somewhat but not by very much.

beso
Sat 26/07/08
13:58

They extract a gas. Then they change it to a liquid by compressing it. However it would expect that it was more than six times.

For example. Propane is a gas at room temperature and normal pressure. If you compress it it will turn to a liquid at room tempreature. But you definitely cannot compress any liquid by six times.

Tom Braider
Sat 26/07/08
15:13

Maybe they mean that, in order to change it from a gas into a liquid, they put it through a compressor 6 times?

rov1200
Sat 26/07/08
21:29

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Its been shown so many times on TV I was beginning to believe I had heard wrongly. But she definately puts it in that order and she does say the liquid compresses 6 times and uses her hands to show by how much. If there was a flaw in the advert I would have thought it would have been picked up by now?

Andyvon
Sun 27/07/08
03:52

That presenter's name is Claudia - I think she's lovely.

ll_billym
Sun 27/07/08
14:32

What about pouring liquid into a black hole?

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