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What happens to the entropy when the evaporation of water takes place?


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Entropy:

  • Entropy as a measure of the degree of randomness or disorder in the system.
  • Entropy is higher when the disorders in an isolated system increase.

Evaporation:

  • It is a process in which a phase transformation occurs from a liquid to a vapor phase.
  • During evaporation, as the liquid state changes to a vapor state, the randomness between the particles increases, due to which the entropy of the system also increases.

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