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Re: Condensation

To: "W." "R." Gibbons <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>, mgs@autox.team.net
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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