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Explain why a bathroom mirror fogs up when you take a hot shower or bath?
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∙ 9y ago
When that happens, condensation is occurring. Condensation turns a gas in to a liquid. In this case the gas is the water vapor. When the cold mirror cools the water vapor and when the water vapor and the air next to the mirror becomes cool enough, it then changes to a gas into a liquid. That's why it becomes wet and fogged up.
Is this something I can put on the mirrors to keep them from fogging up when I'm taking the shower The mirror becomes fogged due to the moisture that accumulates in the air due to the heat of the water. Soon it reaches dew point and condenses on cooler surfaces such as the mirror or window causing water to form.
The hot water evaporates into steam. When the steam hits the cold surface of the mirror, it forms condensation. The condensation is what you see as the fog.
Steam is water in its gaseous phase, and is (like most gases) invisible. Steam only exists above the boiling point of water, so being immersed in true steam would cause near-instant death.
What you see in the bathroom with a hot shower is fog: microscopically small droplets of liquid water.
These will readily condense on any cool surface, but condensation on a shiny, smooth surface (the mirror) is the most noticeable.
If you run your hand over a marble or laminated benchtop, you'll be able to see the track left behind in the water film.
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∙ 9y ago
Johana Osorio
porque el vapor procedente del agua caliente se queda suspendido en el aire, condensándose en las superficies más frías como, por ejemplo, el espejo del baño.
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Why you can step out of the shower into a warm bath - room and begin to shiver?
Well when you are in a shower, you gotta think, you are having a constant body temperature of the water! But when you get out of the shower into a warm bathroom, you begin to shiver because even though the bathroom is warm, its a lower temperature than what your shower water was just at, which causes your temperature to somwhat drop...make sense? Water is evaporating from the body. Heat is converted into the energy needed for the process of evaporation.
Why does the mirror in the bath room gets foggy after you take a hot shower?
Condensation. Warm steam hits the cold mirror and the steam vapors turn back into a liquid as they are cooled. Usually gravity makes the water run down the mirror, but if it's light enough it'll stay in its position, once enough steam is converted, a droplet will form and roll down the mirror - it dissipates when the room temperature cools enough. The general 'states' are Solid > Liquid > Gas Gas > Liquid > Solid Of course, there are non-Newtonian states as well but you don't need to know that. But if you want to read up on it, Google is your friend.
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no
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How do drops form in a bathroom mirror?
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