To: | "W." "R." Gibbons <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>, mgs@autox.team.net |
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Subject: | Re: Condensation |
From: | Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com> |
Date: | Fri, 22 Nov 96 19:14:06 GMT |
>... Warm air can hold a larger amount of water vapor than cold air. >Because relative humidity is a measure of how much water vapor is >present expressed as a percentage of how much the air can hold, >heating the air lowers the relative humidity of the air. The warm >air can now hold more water vapor than the same air could hold when >colder ... ... and hence deposits it on the cold windscreen. |
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