Say you’re out running and are wearing athletic clothing that wicks sweat how does that work? I thought that sweat cools you by evaporating off your skin, if your clothing pulls the sweat off of you isn’t that defeating the purpose?
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It does the same thing as evaporation, removes the heated liquid from your skin. It’s not the evaporation that cools you down it’s the liquid taking heat energy from your skin and going away. In this case the heated liquid is trapped in an insulating fabric rather than evaporating.
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