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la latro'a cu cusku di'e
> Today I wanted to say "liquid water freezes when its temperature is
> decreased to 273 K"

Just to mention an option for this particular case:

lo [litki] djacu cu dunja lo kelvo be li 273

> and "solid water melts when its temperature is
> increased to 273 K"

lo [sligu] djacu cu runme lo kelvo be li 273

> and then quickly realized that {cenba} and friends
> don't have a final state place. {galfi} does, but is causal, which isn't
> really what's desired here. It has the undesirable "concrete binxo"
> undertones, too. Just {co'a} here isn't good enough, either; part of the
> point is that its temperature was higher (resp. lower) before and was
> decreased (resp. increased) to cause the phase transition.
> Any ideas?

How about:

zenba [co'a ko'a] lo ka ma kau ni glare kei lo se sumji be li 273 [bei 
lo me ko'a moi]

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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