Answer to Question #83490 in Molecular Physics | Thermodynamics for Lisa

Question

The moment that air cannot hold any more evaporated water molecules and the water vapour begins to condense onto dust or salt nuclei to form water droplets is called

Answer 1

The moment that air cannot hold any more evaporated water molecules and the water vapour begins to condense onto dust or salt nuclei to form water droplets is called condensation.

Condensation is the change of the physical state of matter from gas phase into liquid phase, and is the reverse of vapourisation. It can also be defined as the change in the state of water vapour to liquid water when in contact with a liquid or solid surface or cloud condensation nuclei within the atmosphere