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• ThermoregulationRelated: It explains how sweat and panting remove heat from an animal's body.

• EvaporationRelated: The same energy transfer that drives evaporation can cool water, soil, and air.

• EctothermyRelated: Some ectotherms use evaporation to shed heat, despite its water cost.

• RefrigerationCompared with: It can cool without a compressor, but works best in dry air and cannot generally cool below the wet-bulb temperature.

• Latent heatRelated: Evaporation draws latent heat from the liquid and its surroundings.

• SublimationRelated: Sublimation can also cool a material by carrying away latent heat.

• Laser coolingCompared with: It often follows laser cooling when the target temperature lies below laser-cooling limits.

• Bose–Einstein condensateRelated: It lowers trapped atomic gases to temperatures where condensation can occur.

• CryogenicsRelated: Boiling cryogens use the same heat-removal principle, though often at much lower temperatures.

• RoastingRelated: Moisture escaping from food initially limits surface temperature and delays browning.

• Absolute zeroRelated: It brings laser-cooled atoms closer to absolute zero.

• Latent heat of vaporizationRelated: The escaping vapor carries away the energy required for vaporization.

• Vapor-compression refrigerationCompared with: It cools by direct evaporation rather than by a closed refrigerant loop.

• Passive coolingCompared with: Some forms use powered fans or pumps, while direct natural evaporation can be passive.

• Wet-bulb temperatureRelated: Evaporation removes heat from the wetted surface until air and water reach equilibrium.

• Eccrine sweat glandRelated: Evaporation of eccrine sweat removes heat from the skin.

• HyperthermiaRelated: Evaporation from the skin is a major cooling route and underlies some emergency cooling methods.

• Radiative coolingCompared with: Unlike radiative cooling, it depends on phase change and often consumes water.

• Cooling towerRelated: Water evaporation transfers heat from the circulating water into the air.

• SweatingRelated: Evaporation of sweat transfers heat away from the skin.

• BaskingCompared with: It counters the heat gain of basking when body temperature rises too far.

• RefrigeratorCompared with: It can cool directly in dry air, whereas a refrigerator confines evaporation within a heat-pumping cycle.

• Crocodilian thermoregulationRelated: Gaping can expose moist mouth surfaces and promote cooling in hot conditions.

• PsychrometricsRelated: Psychrometric properties predict its cooling limit and humidity increase.

• ThermogenesisCompared with: It removes body heat and therefore opposes thermogenic warming.

• Spray dryingRelated: Rapid solvent evaporation keeps wet droplets cooler than the surrounding hot gas.

• Enthalpy of vaporizationRelated: The escaping molecules carry away energy associated with vaporization enthalpy.

• SweatRelated: Evaporation of sweat carries heat away from the skin.

• WindcatcherRelated: Air routed over water or damp surfaces can leave a windcatcher cooler and more humid.

• InsulationCompared with: It deliberately increases heat loss, whereas insulation helps retain heat.

• Ultracold atomsRelated: It lowers temperatures beyond what laser cooling alone can reach.

• AestivationCompared with: Aestivation often limits water loss, so animals cannot rely freely on evaporative cooling.

• Data center coolingCompared with: It can reduce refrigeration demand but increases water consumption.

• Frost protectionCompared with: Water application protects only when freezing releases more heat than evaporation removes.

• VaporizationRelated: It turns vaporization’s energy demand into a cooling effect.

• DownburstRelated: Evaporation of falling rain can cool storm air, making it denser and helping it descend.

• WetsuitRelated: A wetsuit reduces exposed wet skin, limiting evaporation after leaving the water.

• Carl WiemanRelated: This final cooling step brought Wieman’s trapped rubidium gas into the condensate regime.

• Evaporative coolerNarrower topic: The device uses this heat-absorbing phase change to lower air temperature.

• BeanieRelated: Sweat can evaporate through breathable knit fabric, cooling the wearer during activity.

• Sweat glandRelated: Evaporation from the skin removes heat carried there by sweat.

• Wolfgang KetterleRelated: Evaporative cooling lowered Ketterle’s trapped atoms below the temperatures laser cooling could reach.

• ChloroethaneRelated: Rapid evaporation from skin made chloroethane useful as a temporary cooling spray.

• Endothermic processRelated: Evaporation absorbs heat from the liquid and its surroundings.

• PerspirationRelated: Evaporation from the skin removes heat more directly than sweat production itself.

• Kangaroo ratRelated: Its costs in water help explain why kangaroo rats avoid daytime heat.

• YakhchālRelated: Porous surfaces and airflow helped lower temperatures around the structure.

• Cold atoms and matter wavesRelated: It pushes laser-cooled gases into the ultracold regime needed for quantum degeneracy.

• Eric Allin CornellRelated: Cornell’s team used it to cool trapped atoms to condensation.

• Fruit tree physiologyRelated: Orchards use it to lessen heat stress in susceptible fruit and trees.