Asked by Sakshi

If the back of your hand is moistened with alcohol, you will find that it rapidly becomes dry ,But if we do so with water it does not get dryer rapidly . Why?




Answered by bobpursley
alocohol is easy toevaporate, however, its sturcture (helping attache itself two water molecules) allows the water there to go with it.
Answered by Shry
The alcohol on our hand absorbs it's latent heat of vaporisation from the surface of our hands and evaporates.Drawing heat and therefore, cooling our hand in the process.
Answered by Sumit
Due to the latent heat of vaporisation and its rapidly because the boiling point of alcohol is less
Answered by Anshi verma
Because the alcohol on your hands absorbs it latent heat of vapo.
Answered by Maria
Alcohol has tendency to evaporate fastly so when it evaporate it takes away the heat present in the hand along with it . So it causes cooling
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