Saturday, November 7, 2009

Dew n Dew point

Dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening. As the exposed surface cools byradiating its heat, atmospheric moisture condenses at a rate greater than that at which it can evaporate, resulting in the formation of water droplets.

The dew point is the temperature to which a given parcel of air must be cooled, at constant barometric pressure, for water vapor to condense into water. The condensed water is called dew. The dew point is a saturation point. When the dew point temperature falls below freezing it is often called the frost point, as the water vapor no longer creates dew but instead createsfrost or hoarfrost by deposition.

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