Tag: Boiling

The 136 Boiling Hells of Japan

Warning: I describe some Buddhist ideas of hell. Imagery can be disturbing to some. Sulfuric fumes lay thick upon the senses. The smell of rotting eggs wrapped around my head in an intoxicating embrace. Before me is a landscape of jagged rock, barren and dead. Steam rises from bubbling po...

The Intricacies of Water Evaporation: A Molecular Dance Below Boiling Point

Maxwell-Boltzmann’s Distribution: To understand why water evaporates at temperatures below its boiling point, we use Maxwell-Boltzmann’s distribution. This statistical notion represents the distribution of particle speeds in a gas. It helps us comprehend the spectrum of kinetic energy...