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Spilling water over your skin on a hot day will cool you down. Spilling vegetable oil over your skin on a hot day will not. Explain the difference.
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When water is spilled on the skin, it absorbs heat from the skin to change its state from liquid to gas. This process is called evaporation. The heat absorbed from the skin cools down the skin temperature. Show more…
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Spilling room-temperature water over your skin on a hot day cools you down. Spilling room-temperature vegetable oil over your skin on a hot day does not. Explain the difference.
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