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I've got a dumb question here.
How exactly is evaporation different from boiling? So water molecules can evaporate at room temperature, or separated from other chunk of water molecules and be freed to the atmosphere as gas molecules. Same thing happens when water boils, liquid water is converted to gas.
If this liquid->gas conversion can happen even at room temperature, then why does the state change graph like the one we saw millions of times in our chemistry classes (please see the link below) show that only liquid exists until 100'C is reached and then water->gas conversino occurs only during the phase change that happens at 100'C? Could anyone please clarify this?
How exactly is evaporation different from boiling? So water molecules can evaporate at room temperature, or separated from other chunk of water molecules and be freed to the atmosphere as gas molecules. Same thing happens when water boils, liquid water is converted to gas.
If this liquid->gas conversion can happen even at room temperature, then why does the state change graph like the one we saw millions of times in our chemistry classes (please see the link below) show that only liquid exists until 100'C is reached and then water->gas conversino occurs only during the phase change that happens at 100'C? Could anyone please clarify this?