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 gets hot, it starts to move and bounce around faster and faster. This makes the water molecules get more energy and they start to break apart from each other and turn into water vapor.

When the water molecules turn into water vapor, they rise up into the air and evaporate. So, more heat makes the water molecules move around really fast and turn into water vapor quickly, which makes the water evaporate faster.

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