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What is it called when you can see your breath when it's cold?
The air in our lungs is very warm and moist. Warm air can hold more water vapor than cold air. When we breathe out in a cold environment, the temperature of that breath drops rapidly as it mixes with the cold air. As a result a portion of the moisture condenses into tiny water droplets. As mixing continues, though, the drier air disperses the moisture, and the droplets evaporate.
What increases airs ability to hold water vapor?
Heat. Hot air holds more vapor than cold air. This is why we get rain when hot air rises, cools down, and the water vapor condenses out to form rain drops. It's also why we get clouds, the vapor condenses when the air gets cold at altitude but not enough to form droplets and fall from the sky.
Why there is snow?
Snow forms when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses directly into ice crystals, bypassing the liquid state. This happens when the air temperature is cold enough for the water vapor to freeze. Snow falls to the ground when these ice crystals stick together to form snowflakes.
Would vapor pressure be higher in warm air or cold air?
Vapor pressure is higher in warm air because as the temperature increases, the molecules of water gain more kinetic energy and so more of them will escape into the air, increasing the vapor pressure. In cold air, the molecules have less energy and so less water will evaporate into the air, resulting in lower vapor pressure.
What happens when water vapor comes in contact with cold air?
As the air cools, it can contain less and less water vapor as a gas. So the vapor condenses and creates visible mist called fog, clouds, drizzle, and rain depending on where the water vapor condenses and how much of it condenses. The rain and drizzle forms as the mist groups together and creates the droplets and drops.
What happens to the vapor in the air when it get cold?
I think as it gets cooler it can hold less water vapor....
What happens to the air ability to hold water vapor as the air gets warmer?
As the air gets warmer, it's ability to hold water vapor increases.
What happens to the airs ability to hold water vapor as the air gets?
As the air gets warmer, it's ability to hold water vapor increases.
What happens to airs ability to hold water vapor as the air gets warmer?
As the air gets warmer, it's ability to hold water vapor increases.
Why does warm air hold more water vapor then cold air?
Because Water vapor is why the air is warm More specifically the Evaporation/precipitation cycle puts heat into the air via water vapor carrying heat from the surface of the earth into the air If the Surface is hotter then more evaporation happens and in turn more heat gets into the air with the associated humidity
Cold, dry air from Canada picks up water vapor over Great Lakes . What happens to this vapor after that?
it turns into oxygen
Why can you see your breath on a cold mirror?
What happens here is the following: You have water vapor in your breath; when it cools down (as when it gets near the cold mirror), the air can hold less humidity (it becomes saturated), and some of the water condensates.
What happens when air conditioner touches steel?
The steel gets cold.
When it's humid the air holds a lot of water vapor but when it's cold what happens to the water vapor?
When it's cold, the air can hold less water vapor, so it may condense into liquid water or ice, leading to the formation of clouds, dew, or frost. Cold air has a lower capacity to hold moisture compared to warm air, so water vapor tends to condense more easily in cold conditions.
How can moist air turn into a fog?
Water vapor is transparent, but there's a limit to how much water vapor the air can hold. The proportion of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum amount of water that the air can hold is called the "relative humidity", and every weather report includes this value. But the maximum amount of water that the air can hold depends in part on temperature; the colder the air, the less water it can hold. When the relative humidity reaches 100%, you'll see the water vapor condensing into liquid water in the air. If the water droplets are small enough, we see it as fog; if the droplets are larger, it will fall as rain. So when moist air gets cold - or when cold air gets moist, as happens around rivers or damp fields - you'll see fog forming. We see the same phenomenon happens around cold objects, like a glass filled with ice. Moist air gets near the cold glass, and the water vapor in the air condenses into liquid water on the side of your glass, and runs down to make water rings on your wooden table. (That's why your mom wants you to use a coaster!)
What happens to the water molecules when the air above gets cold?
the water molecules get cold and expand and turn into ice
What happens to air when it gets extremely cold?
The particles in the air come closer together and don't move as much.
