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it is the simple principle of evaporation. The same effect can be acheived with any liquid that can evaporate at or around body temperature. Alcohol has a low evaporation point, when you apply it to your skin it draws heat energy from your skin and evaporates off, this process has a cooling effect because it is drawing heat energy from your body.
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What reaction occurs when rubbing alcohol is placed on the arm?
The cooling effect of alcohol on the skin is the result of?
Why does your hand feel cool if you spill alcohol?
The alcohol removes heat from your hand. This is used to evaporate the liquid.
Why is a child with a high fever given a sponge bath with water mixed with rubbing alcohol?
To help cool the child down. The evaporating alcohol would help with the cooling. To evaporate the alcohol needs some energy and it would take heat from the child's skin thus helping with the cooling. The water would remove heat from the skin by evaporation and conduction.
Is acetone a rubbing alcohol?
NO - acetone is not good for your skin !
Can you use rubbing alcohol to rub on your stomach for belly aches?
Not sure if it is a placebo effect or not, but I've been doing this for years and it certaintly helps me out. Don't know anyone outside my family that does it though.
What reaction occurs when rubbing alcohol is placed on the arm?
The cooling effect of alcohol on the skin is the result of?
The cooling effect of perspiration as it evaporates from the skin is the result of high of water?
Enthalpy of vaporization
What short term effect on alcohol on the skin?
Alcohol cools the skin.
Why does your hand feel cool if you spill alcohol?
The alcohol removes heat from your hand. This is used to evaporate the liquid.
What effect does alcohol have on the level of skin contaminants?
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Why does alcohol creates a cooling sensation?
Since alcohol evaporates very quickly, it wicks out heat from your skin. Its exactly what sweat does for your body, but its not a significant cooling sensation like Alcohol, since sweat evaporates slower.
How do you find out the effect of evaporation on skin?
Evaporation causes cooling . The skin cools when evaporation takes place.
Why does rubbing alcohol have a cooling effect on the skin?
Because alcohol evaporates at a low temperature, and an evaporating liquid absorbs heat from its surroundings without getting hotter itself in order to gain energy to evaporate, a phenomenon known as latent heat of evaporation.
Why you feel cooling effect when you come out of the shower?
When water evaporates from you skin, it is a liquid and then becomes a gas. This process requires energy which is taken from your warmer body. You body feels cooler as a result.
Why do you not feel warmth when hydrogen peroxide is used on your skin?
It has a cooling effect while it works and bubbles.
Why is a child with a high fever given a sponge bath with water mixed with rubbing alcohol?
To help cool the child down. The evaporating alcohol would help with the cooling. To evaporate the alcohol needs some energy and it would take heat from the child's skin thus helping with the cooling. The water would remove heat from the skin by evaporation and conduction.
Can alcohol be absorbed through the skin?
Yes alchole can be absorbed through the skin.
