{"id":92936,"date":"2019-07-01T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T19:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/solving-a-condensation-mystery"},"modified":"2019-07-01T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T19:43:23","slug":"solving-a-condensation-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/solving-a-condensation-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Solving a condensation mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solving-a-condensation-mystery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Condensation might ruin a wood coffee table or fog up glasses when entering a warm building on a winter day, but it\u2019s not all inconveniences; the condensation and evaporation cycle has important applications.<\/p>\n<p>Water can be harvested from \u201cthin air,\u201d or separated from salt in desalination plants by way of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/condensation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">condensation<\/a>. Due to the fact condensing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/droplets\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">droplets<\/a> take heat with them when they evaporate, it\u2019s also part of the cooling process in the industrial and high-powered computing arenas. Yet when researchers took a look at the newest method of condensation, they saw something strange: When a special type of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surface<\/a> is covered in a thin layer of oil, condensed water droplets seemed to be randomly flying across the surface at high velocities, merging with larger droplets, in patterns not caused by gravity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re so far apart, in terms of their own, relative dimensions\u201d\u2014the droplets have a diameter smaller than 50 micrometers\u2014\u201d and yet they\u2019re getting pulled, and moving at really high velocities,\u201d said Patricia Weisensee, assistant professor of mechanical engineering &amp; materials science in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Condensation might ruin a wood coffee table or fog up glasses when entering a warm building on a winter day, but it\u2019s not all inconveniences; the condensation and evaporation cycle has important applications. Water can be harvested from \u201cthin air,\u201d or separated from salt in desalination plants by way of condensation. Due to the fact [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}