Not quite correct. Almost all the materials used for the car are currently outgassing. The various metals, plastics, and composites all have some amount of air or other gas trapped in them, and its escaping, greatly weakening the components.
I'd imagine everything is much more brittle and fragile than before the launch already.
Outgassing (sometimes called offgassing, particularly when in reference to indoor air quality) is the release of a gas that was dissolved, trapped, frozen or absorbed in some material. Outgassing can include sublimation and evaporation (which are phase transitions of a substance into a gas), as well as desorption, seepage from cracks or internal volumes, and gaseous products of slow chemical reactions. Boiling is generally thought of as a separate phenomenon from outgassing because it consists of a phase transition of a liquid into a vapor of the same substance.
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u/Thebobinator Feb 07 '18
Not quite correct. Almost all the materials used for the car are currently outgassing. The various metals, plastics, and composites all have some amount of air or other gas trapped in them, and its escaping, greatly weakening the components.
I'd imagine everything is much more brittle and fragile than before the launch already.