What is condensation? How does it occur?

Question

Thank you all for your answers. Relying from all your answers, does all of these answers supports my speculation why fresh water gushes out from the base of volcanoes?

Answer 1

hi,

condensation is the conversion of steam to water. It occurs if by any means the heat of the steam is removed. in industries steam is used as a heating media and when it gives its heat to some other media throughh heat exchangers it converts to condensate. hope this helps. bye.

Answer 2

Condensation is when the water vapor in the air gets cold enough to turn back into water. It occurs when the air temperature gets colder than the dew point. So on a hot humid day the dew point might get to 70 degrees F. If you leave out a cold glass of water then the air around that glass get colder than 70 degrees F and you get condensation.

Answer 3

Warm air holds more water than cool air.  If warm air comes into contact with a cold surface, for example when room temperature air contacts a window with freezing temperatures outside, then the rapid cooling of the warm air releases water onto the cold surface.  This is condensation.

Answer 4

Every substances have their own boiling point.

Ex: liquid. The lower the boiling point is and the higher the temperature is, the easier it will be for it to boil. If they boil a lot, evaporation will be occurred. Now, if the temperature is going down, the vapor will be frozen and the form will be back to liquid. That's condensation.

Answer 5

Condensation is the change of the physical state of aggregation (or simply state) of matter from gaseous phase into liquid phase

Condensation commonly occurs when a vapor is cooled to its dew point, but the dewpoint can also be reached through compression. The condensed vapour is called a condensate, the laboratory or the industrial equipment used for condensation is called a condenser.