What type of energy would be released during condensation? Why?

Question

I'm thinking kinetic. Is this right?

Answer 1

Thermal energy or heat is given out during condensation. This heat is a result of lower kinetic energy of molecules in a liquid compared with those in a gas.

Answer 2

Heat energy is released.This is called the exothermic process. It is because heat have to be released to decrease the kinetic energy in a gas.As the kinetic energy lowers to the boiling point it changes into liquid.Liquid has lower kinetic energy and thus is denser than gas.That is physically speaking of the condensation process.

Kinetic energy can be released when water droplets produced during condensation start to flow downwards because of gravity.Irrelevant, but just an idea.

Answer 3

Well try this. Water when it is evaporated will absorbed 60 Calories for each cc evaporated. The conservation of energy this will give u tremendous heat and updraft when u get the 60 calories back with the condensation in a cloud. That monster is created when a severe cold front slams into hot moist air with millions of cc condensates.

Answer 4

The type and amount of energy released will be the latent heat of evaporation (condensation) for the condensed liquid.

Answer 5

Heat/thermal energy, which is related to the KE of the particles in the matter that makes up your reference system; but radiant energy (infrared radiation, the stuff that warms you when you sit by a fire, or warms your fries at Micky-Ds) is also given of by moving particles. This observation is called the law of conservation of energy. There is more energy in gaseous particles than when the particles are in the liquid state. When the particles condense they must release energy to the surroundings. Any change of state in matter is accompanied by a release or gain in energy, depending on whether the particles are moving faster or slowing down, i.e. gaining energy or losing energy.

BTW, this could also explain, and this of course is over-simplified, but is correct in principle, why we can observe unusually cold temperatures even if ice in the higher lats is melting. It takes energy to melt the ice and that energy must come from somewhere in the system we call planet Earth. Just make ice-cream in an old-fashioned ice-cream machine and use a thermometer to record the temp of the ice bath to see how this semi-closed system behaves. Of course the salt here disrupts the intermolecular bonding between water molecules, but them water molecules must still gain energy from somewhere causing the ice bath to decrease noticeably in temp.

Answer 6

I would say heat energy. heat is "used" in evaporation and "made" in condensation.

Answer 7

Probably heat energy since our refrigrators also work on this princple thats why they are hot when touched from outside. Its all Physics.

Answer 8

It's called "latent heat"