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Water evaporation
It is known that molecules at the surface are strongly attached to each other (more attraction less repulsion) than those within the bulk attraction and repulsion are balanced). This is the molecular ...
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How would one calculate the amount of water contained in a cloud?
So I was looking out the sky one day and I wondered how I would go about calculating how much water was contained in a cloud. I figured the following simple outline
1) We need to roughly know how big ...
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Why is there a hiss sound when water falls on a hot surface?
Why is there a hiss sound when water falls on a hot surface? I have searched a lot, asked my teachers but none of them seem to give me the logical answer to it.
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Why can't I evaporate water without wind, just heat? (not boiling,evaporating!) Or can I?
So here is the thing, I searched all over the internet for this but all the sources say that I need wind because the process of evaporation goes as follow:
Water particles at the top layer with ...
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Sauna thermodynamics
Why does it get hotter (feel hotter) in a sauna when one pours water over the hot stones?
Wikipedia says that the water condenses onto the skin, but the actual air humidity is so low that I doubt ...
