Gas and liquid are separate phases of matter. You can see, in a glass of water, the difference between the two. Water has a boundary with air. Consider supercritical water, and high-pressure vapour.
Can a chamber be created which has cooler lower-pressure vapour on top, and the supercritical fluid below it?
I am, of course, trying to wrap my head around what Venus' carbon-dioxide looks like at this boundary, if it will appear to observers as an ocean. I suspect it will look more like a desert haze with mirages at dawn.
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