evaporation

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Eccrine sweat glands perform a critical function: cooling the body via evaporation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

However, evaporation and poor seawater circulation increased salinity, causing the extinction of marine life between 15 and 6 million years ago.

From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025

The wave pool holds 7 million gallons of water and, because of evaporation, filtration and maintenance, it is expected to go through roughly 25 million gallons of water a year.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

Some use water evaporation to dissipate the heat, which works well but is thirsty.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

In the coming months, much of their drinking water would be lost to evaporation.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown