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Doesn't evaporative cooling work against the second law somehow? There is a system with some average temperature, and spontaneously enough entropy is created to
by fryguy 10y ago
Doesn't evaporative cooling work against the second law somehow? There is a system with some average temperature, and spontaneously enough entropy is created to cause some of the liquid to reach boiling temperature and leave the system, which decreases the average temperature of the liquid.
- rubidium 10y ago"closed physical system" being the operative word. Mass and energy is leaving, thus the average temp decreases but so does the particle count.