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What is it called when water vapor turns into a liquid water?
Condensation is the process where water vapor becomes liquid. It is the reverse of evaporation, where liquid water becomes a vapor. Condensation happens one of two ways: Either the air is cooled to its dew point or it becomes so saturated with water vapor that it cannot hold any more water.
How does water vapor turn into water?
Evaporation turns liquid water into a gas called water vapor. If heat is taken away from water vapor, it condenses. Condensation turns water vapor into a liquid. Water that runs off into rivers flows into ponds, lakes, or oceans where it evaporates back into the atmosphere.
What do water vapor liquid water and ice have in common?
You have learned how ice, liquid water, and water vapor are the same. They are all made of water molecules, and those water molecules are always moving.
What is the H in ho2?
Meaning of H2O in English H2O means that each water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms. Water is the only substance on Earth whose chemical formula has entered the vernacular.
What’s the difference between liquid water and water vapor?
Liquid water changes to water vapor when it evaporates or boils. The gas inside the bubbles of boiling water is water vapor. Water vapor can change back into liquid water when it cools down. Water vapor is always invisible.
What happens after water vapor condenses?
After Water Condenses. Some of the water vapor in the atmosphere that condenses is stored in clouds. Clouds are more likely to form when the air is humid and contains more water vapor. The energy released when gaseous water vapor condenses to form liquid water droplets is called latent heat.
What happens when condensation occurs?
A condensation reaction occurs when two molecules join to form a larger molecule and release a smaller molecule(s) in the process. The smaller molecule lost in the reaction is often water, but it can also be methanol, hydrogen chloride, acetic acid or several other molecules.
What does the condensation process require?
The condensation process. Condensation is the term for water changing state from a vapor to a liquid. The process requires the presence of water vapor in the atmosphere, falling temperature and the presence of another object for water vapor to condense around.
What is condensation of water vapor?
The condensation of water vapor in the atmosphere is the transition of water vapor in the air to the liquid state (droplets). In a more general sense, the term “condensation of water vapor” is applied to the transition of water vapor to both the liquid and the solid states.