This blog was an assignment for my chemical engineering fluid mechanics course at Auburn University. The posts are about naturally occurring fluid mechanics phenomena that I noticed on a daily basis.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Condensation on a Water Bottle
Today, as I was drinking a bottle of chilled water with my lunch. I noticed that immediately after I took the bottle out of the refrigerator that condensation began to form on the outside of the bottle. As a child I formerly thought that condensation was the liquid from inside the container leaking through the walls of the container. This always caused me to try and drink my drink faster so I wouldn't lose that much to condensation. Today I was mindful that the condensation did not come from the liquid in the bottle, but is water vapor from the air condensing on the outside surface of the bottle.
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