What do you call the 'air" that comes out when you open a refridgerator? steam,frost,vapour?

Question

What do you call the 'air" that comes out when you open a refridgerator? steam,frost,vapour?

Answer 1

Water vapor.  What you are witnessing is the warm, moist air outside of the refrigerator rapidly being cooled to its dew point.

Dew point is the temperature a volume of air must be cooled to before the moisture in it becomes visible.

Cool little demonstration of a weather phenomenon that is responsible for all clouds and fog.

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Answer 2

Vapor because the solids in the freezer or fridgerator are sublimating. Turning the solids into a gaseous state.

Answer 3

It is not steam,frost or vapour.It is a moving fog on a small scale.Hence it contains only minute water droplets(water in its liquid form) just like a cloud.It is something like an advection fog where the outside warm air moves over the cold inside air.

Answer 4

It's condensation. The cold air from the fridge is causing the warm air outside the fridge to appear at water vapor. That's because cold air can't hold as much water as warmer air.

You're essentially looking at a cloud.

Sublimation, by the way, is what dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) does at room temperature. When dry ice (solid) melts, it turns directly into gas.....skipping over the liquid state.