Anonymous ID: b5be02 April 24, 2024, 4:44 a.m. No.20769666   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9709

a team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated that heat isn't alone in causing water to evaporate. Light, striking the water's surface where air and water meet, can break water molecules away and float them into the air, causing evaporation in the absence of any source of heat.

 

The effect is strongest when light hits the water surface at an angle of 45 degrees. It is also strongest with a certain type of polarization, called transverse magnetic polarization. And it peaks in green light—which, oddly, is the color for which water is most transparent and thus interacts the least.

 

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-vaporize.html