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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When water evaporates, it needs to absorb energy. This is called the latent heat of vaporization (this is exactly how sweating cools you down). If you add more heat to the water, there’s more energy available for the water to absorb in order to evaporate.