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What Are The Factors That Affect The Rate Of Evaporation?

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    Evaporation is an important property of a liquid. There are a lot of factors that affect the rate of evaporation such as humidity, but the two main factors are:
    Temperature: Although evaporation occurs at all temperatures, but it has been proved that the increase in temperature increases the rate of evaporation. For this purpose we first need to understand what evaporation is. Evaporation is defined as the escape of high-energy molecules from the surface of the liquid. At a lower energy only a few molecules possess enough energy to escape from the liquid surface by overcoming molecular attractions. However, the increase in temperature increases their kinetic energy, and many more molecules acquire sufficient energy to escape into vapor phase.
    Intermolecular forces of the liquid: The rate of evaporation also depends on the nature of the liquid. Thus pentane and ether evaporate quickly than water at room temperature. If the intermolecular forces in a liquid are weak, molecules can escape easily from its surface and the rate of evaporation is high. On the other hand, if intermolecular forces are strong, only those molecules can escape which have sufficiently high energy to overcome intermolecular attraction.
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      The factors  that affect the rate of evaporation ia the humidity of air, surrounding temperature, surface area and air movement influence the rate of evaporation of water

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        The factors that affect the rate of evaporation are : Wind, air, temperature, environment and also, the discharges of birds. In salt industry, they load shrimps to the evaporation ponds for shrimps are the best food for birds and the discharge of birds increase the evaporation of the sea water in order for the salt to crystallize.
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        I got this from my earth science teacher: Air saturation, wind, surface area, and heat all affect evaporation.
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        Does salt affect the rate of evaporation
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