Timeline for When light falls on a wet towel, the towel gradually begins to dry. How can the light react with water and not cloth?
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| Nov 10, 2017 at 20:28 | comment | added | Gert | "reacts " is a very odd term here. Absorbs would be far more accurate. Nor does it matter which absorbs the light more: the cloth or the water. Both absorb light and convert it to heat. The water evaporates because of this heat but not the cloth, as it isn't made of a volatile material. | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 14:15 | history | answered | mmesser314 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |