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  2. Evaporation - Wikipedia

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    Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase. [1] A high concentration of the evaporating substance in the surrounding gas significantly slows down evaporation, such as when humidity affects rate of evaporation of water. [2] When the molecules of the liquid collide, they transfer ...

  3. List of purification methods in chemistry - Wikipedia

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    There are several type of distillation: simple distillation, steam distillation etc. Water purification combines a number of methods to produce potable or drinking water. Downstream processing refers to purification of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and food ingredients produced by fermentation or synthesized by plant and animal tissues, for ...

  4. Vaporization - Wikipedia

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    Vaporization. Vaporization (or vaporisation) of an element or compound is a phase transition from the liquid phase to vapor. [1] There are two types of vaporization: evaporation and boiling. Evaporation is a surface phenomenon, where as boiling is a bulk phenomenon .

  5. Evaporating dish - Wikipedia

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    Evaporating dishes. An evaporating dish is a piece of laboratory glassware used for the evaporation of solutions and supernatant liquids, [a] and sometimes to their melting point. Evaporating dishes are used to evaporate excess solvents – most commonly water – to produce a concentrated solution or a solid precipitate of the dissolved substance.

  6. Drying - Wikipedia

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    Drying is a mass transfer process consisting of the removal of water or another solvent [1] by evaporation from a solid, semi-solid or liquid. This process is often used as a final production step before selling or packaging products.

  7. Physical change - Wikipedia

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    A physical change involves a change in physical properties. Examples of physical properties include melting, transition to a gas, change of strength, change of durability, changes to crystal form, textural change, shape, size, color, volume and density . An example of a physical change is the process of tempering steel to form a knife blade.

  8. Desalination - Wikipedia

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    After evaporation, the water vapor is condensed onto a cool surface. There are two types of solar desalination. The first type uses photovoltaic cells to convert solar energy to electrical energy to power desalination. The second type converts solar energy to heat, and is known as solar thermal powered desalination. Natural evaporation

  9. Enthalpy of vaporization - Wikipedia

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    In thermodynamics, the enthalpy of vaporization (symbol ∆Hvap ), also known as the ( latent) heat of vaporization or heat of evaporation, is the amount of energy ( enthalpy) that must be added to a liquid substance to transform a quantity of that substance into a gas. The enthalpy of vaporization is a function of the pressure and temperature ...