Chemistry in daily life #8
Chemistry
Level
pending
Which of the following phenomena is responsible for the drying of wet clothes ?
( when they are hung in the open)
Evaporation
Efflorescence
Deliquiscence
Vaporization
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1 solution
Vaporization is the process in which a liquid is converted to gas at room temperature. As the sun's rays fall on the clothes ( the no. of water molecules per unit surface area of the cloth is meager for water is evenly spread throughout ) , the water molecules at the surface gain enough energy to escape as gas molecules. It may also happen to a glass of water kept in the sun, but there the surface area of water molecules exposed to the sun is very less ........... so only a negligible volume of water vaporizes.