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  • pkulak@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    our bodies transfer heat from our body to water on the surface of our skin, water that then evaporates, resulting in heat loss from our body

    Not a great explanation. Sweat is obviously body temperature, so heat doesn’t move into it. Unless it turns into water vapor, which is a process that requires quite a lot of heat energy, cooling the remaining liquid or the surface.