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Doesn't water freeze and become ice at 0°C?

You can make supercooled water in your freezer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling

The process of supercooling requires that water be pure and free of nucleation sites

Good luck finding distilled water with no contact with rocks/ice on Europa...

That requires very difficult circumstances that almost certainly can't occur at the planetary scale.

Only at one atmoshpere of pressure.

The difference is negligible: http://i.stack.imgur.com/n6LXj.gif

According to this[1] the pressure on Europa is "one hundred billionth that of the Earth". Your graph uses a log scale, so maybe I'm measuring this wrong, but I'm pretty sure under so little pressure, water can be vapor at -50ºC. So the pressure is hardly negligible in this case.

[1]http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/12/te...

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