Yes. There is latent heat release when vapor condenses.
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Water vapor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Water vapor or water vapour (see spelling differences), also aqueous vapor , is the gas phase of water. Water vapor is one state of the water cycle within the hydrosphere. Water vapor can be prod...
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Condensation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Condensation is the change of the physical state of aggregation (or simply state) of matter from gaseous phase into liquid phase and the reverse of evaporation. When the transition happens from the g...
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They are temperature, pressure, and water vapor. ... Under the right conditions, the water vapor condenses into visible water droplets that we call clouds. If the condensation process continues, the droplets get bigger until they can no longer be suspended in the atmosphere and they fall out as rain or snow and are added...
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If the air cools to its saturation point, the water vapor "condenses" (changes from gas to liquid) to form tiny water droplets. ... ; Since temperature of the atmosphere decreases with height, the temperature of the air parcel cools as it rises upwards.
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The temperature at which water vapor condenses at a pressure of one unit of atmosphere, represented by 100°C and 212°F. ... The definitions used in this glossary of terminology either have been provided by the authors of the articles, or have been extracted wholly or in part, or paraphrased from Biotechnology from A to Z,
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If that explanation is not simple enough for your students, just present the facts: when the temperature drops below the dew-point temperature, there is a net condensation and a cloud forms. But don't ever teach nonsense by claiming that the air has a temperature-dependent holding capacity for water vapor.
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www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadClouds.html
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However, this >process actually enhances condensation >of water vapor in the atmosphere because a warmed >parcel of air rises more rapidly, thus expands >more rapidly, thus cools more rapidly, and thus >condenses more rapidly than if the parcel had >stayed in one place and the temperature were >decreased.
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Condensation and the peltier-cooled processor. ... Since the capacity of air to hold water vapor changes when the temperature changes, it follows that relative humidity depends both on the amount of water vapor in the air and on the temperature of the air.
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