Timeline for How does evaporation affect the temperature of the air?
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| Dec 6, 2011 at 14:40 | comment | added | Alan Rominger | @annav It sounds like Stom's answer is falling a little bit short of full correctness, but you seem to have a good grasp to argue that the air still warms. Try writing an answer, I'd like to select something. | |
| Dec 6, 2011 at 7:16 | comment | added | anna v | The escaped molecules take energy from the surface of the liquid. They escape because of the tail of the statistical distribution of the kinetic energy: a perercentage has more energy than the binding of surface tension . This percentage depends on the temperature of the liquid, more when it is hotter,. In a closed container from conservation of kinetic energy, the liquid will cool as well as the air in contact with it, but the bulk of the air would get a higher temperature. Convection is used and the air with the evaporate is removed in the water cooling systems. | |
| Dec 5, 2011 at 15:01 | comment | added | Tomarinator | I have a feeling, it shouldnt have been down voted | |
| Dec 5, 2011 at 14:43 | history | answered | Tomarinator | CC BY-SA 3.0 |