Questions tagged [condensation]
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Temperature of a resting glass of water
It’s summer and summers have become more and more hot&humid lately. This got me curious about the dew point and then wet bulb temperatures, both for scientific and (maybe, someday in the future) ...
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Energy Benefits of Using Windows Vacuums to Remove Water That Otherwise Evaporates and Absorbs Energy
I've been using a new window vac and pondering its effect on the temperature in the house - and there seems nothing written about this that I can find. Plainly when the water evaporates energy is ...
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Gas and Vapour liquefaction
I am a bit confuse in the first statement.
I think the statement is implying vapour as 'former' and gas as 'latter'. Am I correct here?
But gas can be liqufied with pressure alone below the critical ...
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Why doesn't the windshield fog up where my kid drew on it with her fingers?
A few weeks ago the inside of my car windshield was fogged up and my older kid used her finger to draw a face in the condensation.
Weeks later, the windshield fogged up again, and the face became ...
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Enthalpy and entropy at phase transition
The second law of thermodynamics states, that entropy (of the universe) always increases. Entropy can, however, be (locally) reduced when energy is provided.
At the phase transition from a relatively ...
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Why $|H_1(\Sigma,\mathbb{Z}_N)|$ can be interpreted as an 1+1d $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge theory?
I am reading the article https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02407, and I am struggling with the definition of a condensation defect, which is given by
\begin{align}
S(\Sigma)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{|H_1(\Sigma,\...
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Why does dew only fall on horizontal surfaces?
I noticed that dew only falls on horizontal surfaces, while vertical surfaces remain dry.
But dew is the condensation of water vapor contained in the air. And for the condensation process, the ...
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Why is condensation point of water same temperature as boiling point?
I am a complete layman and I read somewhere that the condensation point temperature of water is 100°C, same as boiling point temperature.
Thinking intuitively, this doesn't make sense to me. Doesn't ...
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Photon radiation from condensing water
Does water vapor generate electromagnetic radiation/photons when it condenses into water droplets?
I know that gas water molecules need a condensation particle to combine into water droplets. A pair ...
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Condensation on the side of a cloud chamber
I'm trying to build a cloud chamber using a peltier thermoelectric cooler. So far, I've managed to detect some particles, but their trails are very weak (I've used a high voltage generator, about 4kV, ...
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Clausius-Clapeyron relation for high pressures
I can see that the Clausius-Clapeyron relation depends on the change in specific volume $\Delta v = v_g (1 - \frac{v_c}{v_g}) = v_g - v_c$, with $v_c$ equal to the volume of the condensed phase and $...
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Oxygen condensation on Earth
I am getting interesting results using the Clausius-Clapeyron relation to calculate the saturation vapour pressure of diatomic oxygen. I am using the following values:
214kJ/kg for latent heat of ...
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Moist adiabatic lapse rate
Wikipedia gives the following equation to calculate the moist adiabatic lapse rate $\Gamma_w$, assuming that there is only one condensible gas (water vapour) mixed in the "dry air":
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What can cause this condensation pattern in a window's glass?
What can cause a condensation pattern like this one:
in a kitchen's window? Found early in the morning. Adjacent windows had an homogeneous condensation "pattern" all over the surface.
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Condensation on Mirror
When taking a hot shower I notice that moisture forms on the surface of my mirror. Mirrors are insulators so why does water vapour condense on the mirror? I've seen explanations that state that when ...
