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Evaporation happens more quickly when:

• the temperature of the liquid is higher

• the surface area of the liquid is bigger

• the air around the surface of the liquid is
moving.

Think!
When would evaporation happen most

quickly?
How can you dry a wet T-shirt quickly? Explain
your answer.

Water boils at 100°C. When liquids boil, all of
the particles in the liquid have a lot of energy.
This means that all of the particles can

change into a gas, not just the ones on the
surface. Bubbles of gas in the liquid come to
the surface and escape into the air.

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