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Why is condensation a heating process?

Updated: 9/16/2023
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You have to add heat both to melt solids and to evaporate or boil liquids, and you gain heat when a gas condenses to a liquid or a liquid freezes to a solid. That is because there is actual chemical bonding that holds solids in a solid state, or liquids in a liquid state; in a gas the constituent molecules or atoms are not bonded to each other. Breaking bonds requires energy and forming bonds releases energy.

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