Sentences with phrase «vapour into liquid water»

In the absence of such aerosols, the spontaneous conversion of water vapour into liquid water or ice crystals requires conditions with relative humidities much greater than 100 percent, with respect to a flat surface of H2O.

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The process where liquid water turns into vapour (e.g. a rain puddle may evaporate into water vapour when the sun comes out).

Carbon dioxide is fully part of that water cycle where water heated by the thermal infrared direct from the Sun evaporates and anyway lighter than air rises in air and takes away heat from the surface — all pure clean rain is carbonic acid, the water vapour spontaneously joining with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere releases its heat in the colder heights and condenses out back into liquid water and ice, cooling the Earth from the 67 °C it would be without the water cycle.

The local pressure reduction pointed to when condensation reduces volume is instantly offset by mass flowing into the original volume from the surroundings and the energy released is not enough to make the air parcel and the liquid contents lighter than air containing water vapour.

What do you think happens to the energy that is released when water vapour condenses back into liquid water?