The main difference between evaporation and boiling are : 1.

Evaporation takes place at all temperatures, while boiling occurs at a particular temperature. 2. Evaporation takes place from the surface, whereas the entire liquid boils. 3. Evaporation can occur using the internal energy of the system, while boiling requires an external source of heat. 4. Evaporation produces cooling but boiling does not. 5. Evaporation is a slow process while boiling is a rapid process.

evaporation happens at any temperature above melting point, boiling only at the boiling point. evaporation happens only at the surface, boiling happens throughout the liquid. boiling takes energy in (endothermic) to occur, while evaporation lets only the molecules with the highest kinetic energy out, leaving the rest of the water net kinetic energy, so evaporation is exothermic. the main difference is that boiling happens when heat is added from the bottom and evaporation is when heat is added from the top. For instance, when you boil water in a pot, it is being heated from the bottom, so air bubbles form at the bottom and rise through the liquid, to the top. It would be evaporation if the heat was added from the top (no bubbles would form). Gas and vapor are commonly used as synonyms. However, a vapor is a specific type of gas. A vapor is a gas whose molecules gained energy and vaporized from a substance who at room temperature is either a solid or liquid. An example is water. Water is a liquid at room temperature, so when it becomes a gas it is referred to as water vapor.

Atmospheric pressure is the force per unit area exerted on a surface by the weight of air above that surface in the atmosphere of Earth (or that of another planet). In most circumstances atmospheric pressure is closely approximated by the hydrostatic pressure caused by the mass of air above the measurement point. Low-pressure areas have less atmospheric mass above their location, whereas high-pressure areas have more atmospheric mass above their location

When a liquid is heated, it eventually reaches a temperature at which the vapor pressure is large enough that bubbles form inside the body of the liquid. This temperature is called the boiling point. Once the liquid starts to boil, the temperature remains constant until all of the liquid has been converted to a gas. The normal boiling point of water is 100oC. But if you try to cook an egg in boiling water while camping in the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 10,000 feet, you will find that it takes longer for the egg to cook because water boils at only 90oC at this elevation.

In theory, you shouldn't be able to heat a liquid to temperatures above its normal boiling point. Before microwave ovens became popular, however, pressure cookers were used to decrease the amount of time it took to cook food. In a typical pressure cooker, water can remain a liquid at temperatures as high as 120oC, and food cooks in as little as one-third the normal time. To explain why water boils at 90oC in the mountains and 120oC in a pressure cooker, even though the normal boiling point of water is 100oC, we have to understand why a liquid boils. By definition, a liquid boils when the vapor pressure of the gas escaping from the liquid is equal to the pressure exerted on the liquid by its surroundings, as shown in the figure below.

Liquids boil when their vapor pressure is equal to the pressure exerted on the liquid by its surroundings.
The normal boiling point of water is 100oC because this is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of water is 760 mmHg, or 1 atm. Under normal conditions, when the pressure of the atmosphere is approximately 760 mmHg, water boils at 100oC. At 10,000 feet above sea level, the pressure of the atmosphere is only 526 mmHg. At these elevations, water boils when its vapor pressure is 526 mmHg, which occurs at a temperature of 90oC. Pressure cookers are equipped with a valve that lets gas escape when the pressure inside the pot exceeds some fixed value. This valve is often set at 15 psi, which means that the water vapor inside the pot must reach a pressure of 2 atm before it can escape. Because water doesn't reach a vapor pressure of 2 atm until the temperature is 120oC, it boils in this container at 120oC.

Liquids often boil in an uneven fashion, or bump. They tend to bump when there aren't any scratches on the walls of the container where bubbles can form. Bumping is easily prevented by adding a few boiling chips to the liquid, which provide a rough surface upon which bubbles can form. When boiling chips are used, essentially all of the bubbles that rise through the solution form on the surface of these chips.

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There are two major differences between "center of gravity" and "center of mass": 1) The term "center of gravity" aplies to the bodies with mass and weight, while the term "centroid" applies to plan areas. 2) Center of gravity of a body is the point through which the resultant gravitational force (weight) of the body acts for any orientation of the body while centroid is the point in a plane area such that the moment of the area, about any axis, through that point is zero. Center of gravity is the point at which a object can be suspended and be in perfect equilibrium

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