by 
pnyknight
ANSWERS: 4
-
I actually have no idea, but very good question!
-
On an normal day water keeps on evaporating,the amount of evaporation depends upon the relative humidity of that day. Water molecules tries to saturate the surrounding air,which is defficient in water,water evaporates by using its latent heat or what they called heat of evaporation & the driving force is vapor pressure. When the water is heated,the internal energy of the water molecules increases, thus it becomes easy for the water molecule to cross the threshold, so rate of evaporation will increase. If the surrounding is cool this evaporated water will cool down & give a cloudy look.
-
There are only two ways that I can see that hot water will look cloudy: 1) The bubbles created by boiling water may give a cloudy look. 2) In most places the water from the taps are quite saturated in limescale. When boiling such water you are separating the H2O from the limescale and as such the limescale floats around in the water. Limescale is white and will give a cloudy look.
-
Hot water will sometimes be cloudy due to the physics of heating and moving the water through a pressurized system. As water is heated, the gases dissolved in the water will escape. (That's why most water heaters have a pressure release safety device.) As the hot water is released at the tap, the gases immediately begin to separate from it. The cloudy water will clear quickly.
RELATED QUESTIONS
Copyright 2023, Wired Ivy, LLC