why do objects get cold faster when they are wet?
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basically, evaporative cooling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler
Evaporation make things cooler. If things are dry, they don’t have water to evaporate, so there’s no evaporation to speed up the cooling.
Evaporation. The liquid coati g the surface evaporates, and in doing so it takes some of the thermal energy of the body with it. This is why alcohols feel so cold, because they have a lot lower boiling temperature than water they alps evaporate faster and cool down an object faster
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