If water boils on the stove at approximately 100 degrees celsius, then how or why does water in the ocean/seas/lakes etc evaporate when it surely doesn’t reach anywhere near this temperature?
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Water doesn’t need to reach boiling point to evaporate. Evaporation happens at any temperature above freezing and even below the freezing point. And ice can actually sublimate (go straight from solid ice to gas).
The boiling point is just when the pressure in the water reached the same as the pressure of the air pushing on the water.
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