How does heat speed up evaporation of water?

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I know how evaporation works in general, water molecules escaping and such… but I can’t for the life of me figure out how heat makes that process faster

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Answer 1

Heat=molecular energy in the form of atomic vibrations. The more energy the molecules have, the faster they bounce around, and therefore the more of them get flung out into oblivion.

Hence, hotter=faster evaporation.

This same principle is why ice is hard and steam is gas. Zero vibration turns to solid ice and maximum vibration puffs up into gas.