I had this question in a mid-term in physical chemistry 20 years ago. I can’t remember the details but it is driven by the entropy in the system. Along with the things other have said about changes tight above the surface of the puffle.
Anon didn’t pay attention in physics class.
The teacher was explaining about conducting and not conducting, and we had a battery with lamp thing to test on various objects. I of course had to test this on a pencil and discovered semi-conducting. That was a serious “not today” sigh from the teacher.
Water operates on Celsius so it only needed to be 100 degrees retard
You’re a 100-degrees retard
Cmon bro, that word is not appropriate, you can say °C instead.
Water doesn’t need to boil to dry out.
Obviously it’s just losing wetness over time.
Many hikers pack dehydrated water on long camping trips. Just add water to rehydrate it and drink!
How long has Sam Harris been a mermaid?
Anon forgot that temperature in a substance is not uniform. This normally doesn’t matter, but if a part becomes hotter than the boiling point it will leave before it has a chance to go back to average temperature. So yes, the water “went to 212” before evaporating.
matter changes state based on temperature
This is a gross oversimplification and your experiment proves that :)
this feels like a potentially sincere attempt to recruit people into an anti-science conspiracy movement - this doesn’t really feel different than the kind of reasoning you see with moon landing denialists or flat earthers.
Im a lifelong flat earth denier
The oceans aren’t carbonated therefore flat earth
Not carbonated enough yet
It’s actually not a bad question, just one people don’t really think about. Why does room temperature water sublimate?
It’s because the temperature is an average, and some molecules at the surface have enough energy to break their polar bonds.
Pretty sure Bill Nye taught me this. Substitute teachers aren’t playing the good stuff anymore
I wanna say Bill Nye had a little contraption that explained this phenomenon. A cup with a piston on one end that vibrated. The top part of the cup had a ring in the center where little balls in the cup could fit. The piston represented the temperature (energy). Even at a lower temperature, some balls could randomly fly into the little hole and into the other partition. Turning the temperature up (increasing the speed and power of the piston) made more balls more frequently “evaporate.” I wish I could find that demonstration again.
Water doesn’t sublimate. Sublimation is solid to gaseous phase change.
sublimation is poorly defined in our context.
Eh I wouldn’t take it too seriously, I’m pretty sure it’s a play on the whole running joke of “saying something ridiculous, then end it with ‘You guys don’t seriously believe this right?!?’” type of thing. I’ve seen many of these greentexts that used that format recently.
It’s kinda funny to me because it loosely reminds me of same logic as those old rage comic “troll physics” memes like these:
Poe’s Law
