Assuming man has capacity to compress air to 50K psi or higher, what happens to the air?  Could compressed air drive a turbine or reciprocating motor in an automobile, assuming the container could be safely carried aboard the vehicle?
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Air is oxygen and nitrogen and that those pressures would react to form nitrous oxide or something along those lines.  People have accidentally created very high pressures, for example in welding one can trap high pressure gas in the weld which can cause the weld to crack.  Another case is certain metals when used in nuclear reactors form gas in the millions of psi range (but in very tiny amounts), again leading to cracking.
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A compressor or supercharger pressurizes the intake air in an engine. This fits more air into the cylinder, enabling it to burn more fuel. So you get more power from a given size engine. In piston-engine airplane, it lets the plane fly higher, where the atmosphere would otherwise be too thin.\n\nA turbocharger is the same thing, but it uses a turbine that is powered by engine exhaust to run the compressor.
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both.  the friction, as well as creating its own heat, slows the airflow, which aggrivates the compression along the leading edges.\n\nI'm pretty sure.  don't put this on a physics test and then blame me.
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you would probably suffocate from the high altitute b-cuz there isnt much oxygen up there.
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Depends on what you feed it.  It usually uses the ambient gas which is air and all it's doing is pressurizing it.  But if it's a closed system  compressor like the one on your frigged, then it would be freon or some other refrigerant.  If you took an air compressor to mars, it would just compress whatever gas was in the martian atmosphere.  You would not be able to breath it.
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u will find lot of papers regarding air compressor in this site\nhttp://air-compressor-guides.com/
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So living things can breath. Without air pressure we would not be able to breath.The air is thinner up in the atmosphere.Down here the air is Thicker and more dense then up there that's how we can live,with air pressure.With too much pressure or to little we could die.With too much pressure we could implode. Or too little pressure we could explode (I don't know how that would be possible but I think it's right) .That sounds funny that we would explode with too little
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cooling it or pressurized it
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in space, it is a vaccum.  and on earth, the air pressure keeps your body intact.  there is a lot of pressure coming down upon your body and your body's pressure outward is kept at an equillibrium.  thus preventing you from exploding or imploding, unless you get too deep in the ocean you would implode from the excessive pressure from the water.\n\nin space, a vaccum, there isn't external pressure pushing against the pressure exerted by your body outwards hence causing you to explode.  once you have exploded... if you are far enough from any heat source, you will freeze.  if you are close enough to a heat source you will burn up.\n\nyou can test this vaccum idea by getting a plastic bottle and covering the opening with your mouth.  if you suck and suck really hard the air is removed, hence the bottle will become closer to a vaccum and the outside pressure will crush the less pressured bottle.  but if your tongue or lips are at the tip of the opening, it will hurt b/c that is the pressure from your body pushing outwards towards a less pressured area trying to obtain equilibrium.
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You would need a tank about the size of a house (55ft cube) unless you compress the air then it would be much smaller.
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This is potentially a massive and complex task.\nSearch the web for "computational fluid dynamics".  Here's what I found in a couple of minutes:\nThe 1st ref. below has some interesting simulation ideas (but unfortunately for a liquid, not air).\nThe next discusses things you should know before even deciding whether to do this.\nThe last gives links to software downloads.
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You're going to need containers to move stuff around in which fit closely to the tubes, the tubes themselves, and then an air compressor or vacuum pump to blow them around.\n\nThe link below is for a company which will build it for you. I suspect that not many people build these themselves.\n\nGood luck!
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air would rush into the empty tube and filll the vaccum and some may escape in to space but not very much.\n\nTake a straw and plug the top insert it into a glass of water - remove your finger. if your straw wa almost all the way under you will shoot a little water in the air but the cupp will not empty - physical principles are the same
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My understanding is that air has mass - more pressure in a chamber would mean more air - therefore, moving mass (or pressure) from one portion of the sealed vessel to another would shift the mass, be it ever so slightly. This would not affect the bouancy of the vessel, but may change its orientation ever so slightly. Anogulous to being in a boat and moving from the front to the back - the back would drop slightly, and front would raise slightly. \n\nHowever, as stated, the buoyancy of the "entire" vessel would not be affected.
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The pressure between the inside of the can and the outside will equalize. It won't blow up in the sense of destroying the can. What might happen is that the metal near the puncture will tear a bit as the escaping gas rushes past it- in the same way a hole in a dam would 'grow' as water flows through it.\n\nProbably of more interest is that the escaping gas will be at a much, much colder temperature as it expands. This can lead to a surprising freezing effect at, on and near the can.\n\nIt is much more dangerous to heat a pressurized can without puncturing it. In this case, the can can fail as the pressure increases (due to the heating) and burst along a large seam instead of a small hole. Pieces of the can can be ejected quite powerfully in this scenario. The puncture scenario doesn't give you this effect at all.
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An example of this is when the air is released from a pneumatic tire; the outlet air will be noticably cooler than the tire, and after all the air has escaped the valve stem will be cold to the touch. Diesel engines rely on adiabatic heating during their compression stroke to reach the high temperatures needed to ignite the fuel. Such temperature changes can be quantified using the ideal gas law.
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It will definitely explode, but not to this extent as you have mentioned. \n\nIf you want a more massive explosion try out a beer can or champagne bottle. Then the blast will be enough to hurt humans, but again not to your desired extent.