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    $\begingroup$ The other answer made the point that when the dome rips, the water will be at 25 Celsius, so it will boil until it drops to it's freezing point, which seems to be right at the triple point there at 600 Pa and 0 Celsiuis. $\endgroup$
    – kim holder
    Commented Aug 18, 2016 at 17:53
  • $\begingroup$ @kimholder well the other answer makes the assumption that the dome blows away while the ambient temperature is above the sublimation point which, based on the mean, isn't likely. Further, until the edit, it didn't explicitly say that the pool couldn't remain as water which wasn't clear to me until I looked up the phase diagram. $\endgroup$
    – Dean MacGregor
    Commented Aug 18, 2016 at 20:23
  • $\begingroup$ That's a legitimate point. I interpreted that as meaning the water doesn't continue to be heated. $\endgroup$
    – kim holder
    Commented Aug 18, 2016 at 20:55
  • $\begingroup$ The question says "an event happens", not "multiple events happen, separated by some indeterminate amount of time". I would take that to mean that pool heating stopped at more or less same time that the dome lost integrity. $\endgroup$
    – David Hammen
    Commented Aug 19, 2016 at 10:24
  • $\begingroup$ @DavidHammen That's a fair point but I addressed that in the last two sentences of my edit. $\endgroup$
    – Dean MacGregor
    Commented Aug 19, 2016 at 12:24