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We sweat to remove body heat through the process of evaporation. Our sweat is mainly water and in order for it to evaporate it it requires latent heat energy to transform into water vapor(gas). This heat energy comes in the form of bodily heat that is available on the surface of our skin. A cooling effect is felt from this heat removal and it is intensified when wind is present. Wind is the flowing of air and as it moves past evaporating water at high rate it picks up the water vapor and speeds up the evaporation process. The intensified cool felt by wind is an increase in the rate of evaporation and transfer of latent heat energy (body heat).

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