Aftermath raining question ><

• mei_ting <sweet icecream>

  30 Jul 10, 09:13

  hiiee lol it took me 5 mins to find this homework forum ><. btw im on MC today so i want to take this opportunity to post this ...

   

  I got a question that my science teacher wants me to figure out but i cant so ... here's the question hope u guys help me THANK YOUU

   

  After raining obviously there's a puddle here and there and when i walk outside it seems that like im sweating but its not hot. I'm Perspiring but i dont feel hot on the outside of my body. Just a warm weather since its just done raining, wasn't it suppose to be cold around the atmosphere? but why am i perspiring? btw im not jogging or whatever haha.

   

  AND YES, sorry for my terrible english. Now please help me ty  

• ditzy

  30 Jul 10, 09:19

  Because humidity is like 100%. The air is saturated with vapor, and evaporation becomes difficult.

• mei_ting <sweet icecream>

  30 Jul 10, 09:21

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  Because humidity is like 100%. The air is saturated with vapor, and evaporation becomes difficult.

  
  erm ... is there a way to make the evaporation easier? i cant stand the sweat leh

• ditzy

  30 Jul 10, 09:24

  Originally posted by mei_ting <sweet icecream>:

  
  erm ... is there a way to make the evaporation easier? i cant stand the sweat leh

  Yeah, there is a way, its called "dream on".

• mei_ting <sweet icecream>

  30 Jul 10, 09:30

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  Yeah, there is a way, its called "dream on".

  
  thats funny ditzy real funny

   

  sheeeshh

• 16/f/lonely

  30 Jul 10, 10:06

  Originally posted by mei_ting <sweet icecream>:

  
  erm ... is there a way to make the evaporation easier? i cant stand the sweat leh

  
  Blow a fan towards yourself, or strip. Really.

• mei_ting <sweet icecream>

  30 Jul 10, 11:09

  Originally posted by 16/f/lonely:

  
  Blow a fan towards yourself, or strip. Really.

  
  SERIOUS HERE!!!!!!

• Simple_Bear

  30 Jul 10, 11:16

  I am hot thats why...

  

• SmRtFrEaks

  30 Jul 10, 11:23

  is called humidity...

• -StarDust-

  30 Jul 10, 11:28

  That should be it.

• UltimaOnline

  30 Jul 10, 12:14

  Others on this thread have already mention the keyword "humidity", but I'll elaborate and elucidate.

   

  Everyone sweats/perspires to a small extent naturally all the time (less in low temperatures, more in higher temperatures), even when you're not particularly hot, exercising or jogging.

   

  It's just that at low humidity, the sweat/perspiration evaporates readily so you don't even realize there was any sweating/perspiration.

   

  After a rain, there is a high concentration of gaseous water vapour in the air, ie. high humidity. In such a case, your naturally ongoing sweating/perspiration is unable to evaporate readily, and hence clings onto your skin as a film of uncomfortable sweat.

   

   

• russiabear

  30 Jul 10, 14:32

  there is a way to cool yourself even in hot humid weather. bring rubbing alcohol. apply it to hot skin. as it evaporates, it will suck the heat off your skin, thus cooling you. a variation of that is axe brand medicated oil. dunno if other oils work but this one i know for sure cos i did it when i was in NS. of course it is not tactical (medicated oil has strong smell) but when tactical not required, i apply it.

• UltimaOnline

  30 Jul 10, 15:02

  There is one problem with using alcohol to cool yourself. Amongst the many different types of alcohols, the only one which is relatively non-toxic to humans, is ethanol. Even ethanol is slightly toxic, which is why drinking alcoholic drinks cause liver and brain damage in the long term.

   

  All the other alcohols are deadly toxic to humans. Consuming them leads readily to blindness and a painful death.

   

  Taxing drinkable alcoholic drinks are an important source of revenue for all governments. Hence, alcohol tax makes alcoholic drinks expensive.

   

  But because alcohols are also needed for non-consumption purposes across many industries (eg. painting, perfume, mechanics, etc), and yet have the risk of being consumed as drinks (eg. people buy cheap alcohol from paint / perfume / mechanics shop to drink it as party drinks), hence the law of all countries specify that you need to 'denature' the alcohols sold for non-drinking purposes (eg. painting, perfume, mechanics, etc).

   

  To 'denature' alcohol means to add poison to it, so people can't buy cheap alcohol (eg. meant for painting, perfume, mechanics, etc) and drink them. Common poisons used for such, include the toxic alcohols of methanol and propan-2-ol.

   

  Hence, alcohol which you can obtain to, for instance, rub on your skin to cool yourself down, eg. alcohol swabs or bottles you can buy at the pharmacy, will certainly be non-drinkable denatured alcohol, which contains some toxic-to-humans chemical, eg. toxic alcohols such as methanol and propan-2-ol.

  
  And anything you rub onto your skin, some of it will diffuse into into your bloodstream, inevitably. (This includes all cosmetics that women use, and as such women should cut down on cosmetics.)

   

• mei_ting <sweet icecream>

  3 Aug 10, 16:36

  tyty for the answer ultimaonline xD *gives u chocolate* haha ...