Does water ever drop below room temperature
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The room temperature will rise slightly to meet it.
Unless we're assuming an infinitely large room.
Unless we're assuming an infinitely large room.
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Also, what temperature are you heating it to?
If you boil it for long enough, it will all evaporate, and then depending on the size of the room, ambient temperature and ambient moisture levels, will either form condensation on any cold surfaces, or simply remain in the air.
If you boil it for long enough, it will all evaporate, and then depending on the size of the room, ambient temperature and ambient moisture levels, will either form condensation on any cold surfaces, or simply remain in the air.
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the water would heat the room up then cool down, no not at first they later on yes.
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What's water?
This. I believe it is a mixture from both the zeroth law of thermodynamics and the first. The heat energy will be released from the water, cooling it while increasing the entropy (disorder) of the air and slightly warming it. In the end, you have an equilibrium where the water and the room is at the same temperature, but you have not done anything to the heat energy except change it into more disorder. Which is why in the end, there will be nothing but disorder, thanks to the second law.
I reckon they need sending back.
