Boiling Point

Boiling point is that temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid substance equals one atmosphere. We report boiling points in kelvins--on the absolute or thermodynamic temperature scale.

Boiling points of the elements were obtained from the 81th edition of the CRC HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, D. R. Lide, Ed., CRC Press, Inc., 2000. Data from the CRC HANDBOOK OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS was collected online at:

http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?BookID=34 (accessed July, 2002)