Which outcome occurs when a cryogenic liquid undergoes rapid adiabatic decompression?

💡 Explanation

When a cryogenic liquid undergoes rapid adiabatic decompression (Joule-Thomson effect), the sudden pressure drop causes a phase transition because the liquid reaches a superheated state where its temperature is significantly above its boiling point at the new pressure, generating the gas phase. Therefore intense boiling flash occurs, rather than phase transition to solidification, temperature rise, or viscosity change which each require different conditions.

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