Why does water in a wide flat shallow dish evaporate more quickly than in a narrow skinny dish?

Question

Why does water in a wide flat shallow dish evaporate more quickly than in a narrow skinny dish?

Answer 1

more surface more evaporate.

Answer 2

bigger surface area = quicker evaporation rate

along with unsaturated air, high temperatures and high wind

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Answer 3

Greater surface area to evaporate!

Answer 4

Evaporation occurs when the molecules of water turn to a gaseous form spontaneously.  This can only occur in the very top layer of the liquid.  If a dish is very open to the air, like the wide dish, it has more surface area, so there are more molecules on the very top layer, which means there is a greater chance of them changing to gas, or evaporating.

Answer 5

Very simple.The evaporation is directly proportion to the surface area and inversely proportional to depth.

The more the surface area more evaporation and if the depth is more the heat will be observed by the bottom layers.

Answer 6

The more surface area the water has, the more molecules exposed and therefore it evaporates faster.

Answer 7

The evaporation of water is dependent on the surface area exposed to the air.