• @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    Am I stupid if I already believed this to be true and experimentally verified?

    If a photon hits water it heats it up (this is not controversial)

    If a photo hits a water molecule in exactly the right way can’t that cause it to evaporate? We know light can excite an electron.

    • @TurboDiesel
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      51 year ago

      It’s slightly different from the light just heating the water. The energy of the individual photons colliding with the water molecules causes them to vaporize without heat transfer.

      • @scarabic
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        51 year ago

        Yes and this effect is very small compared to the effect of heat, but when accounted for, it can make a difference at scale, in weather and climate simulation models, for example.