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this is simple as it see

look when a body sweat there is moisture on surface of skin and when this moisture evaporate then ther eis transfer of heat from high temperature to low temperature

that's why we feel cool after sweating .....

It needs heat to convert moisture to a vapour and this heat is supplied by the body via the skin. The loss of heat is felt as cooling.

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When the skin excretes water (sweats) through the sweat glands, the evaporation of the water can help cool the skin as it absorbs heat from the body to change from liquid to vapor. The Heat of Vaporization of water at, hmmm, let's say 104 °F (40 °C) is 43.350 kJ/mol or 2408 J/g. At that same temperature, the heat capacity of liquid water is 4.179 J/g/°C - so for every gram of sweat evaporated, you can get 1 °C of cooling for 576 g of liquid water (and the body is mostly water). Since the sweat also leaves the body, it also carries some energy away with it in addition to the energy used to cause it to evaporate - enough to cool about another 5 grams of water 1 °C.

When we get hot from exercise our body dilates the veins near the surface of the skin (that's why light skinned people look red when they get hot). As the sweat absorbs heat from the skin, it cools it down the blood in those veins in the skin and that cooler blood then returns to the core of the body (after passing through the heart and lungs) and cools the entire body. Note that in very humid environments sweating doesn't do a very good job of cooling down the body because the air is already so close to saturated with water vapor that you get much less evaporation of sweat. Conversely in arid environments sweating can be extra effective in cooling the body.

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So basically sweat is water on your skin. It cools us down because when it evaporates ( ie changes from a liquid to a gas), it must have some energy to make that change. The sweat 'takes' this energy from the surface of your skin, and the less energy (in the form of HEAT energy), the cooler you are.

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Evaporation is a process with absoption of heat,

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Because when the sweat comes out of the sweat pores in the epidermis (skin) it evaporates, cooling the body down naturally

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