Boiling point is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid equals the ambient atmospheric pressure. Pressure decreases with increasing altitude, leading to a lower boiling point.
Water boils at a lower temperature at high altitudes, because
Asked in UPSC NDA 2 2017 · Topic: Heat and Thermodynamics (Phase Transitions and Clausius-Clapeyron Equation)
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