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Originally Posted by Jetée
By noseclip, do you mean manufacturers actually produce and market such a product? I'm not surprised, but I had to re-read your statement to see if I wasn't just supplanting "laundry clip" in there for whatever reason.
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my real question and reason for a return to this thread is a follow-up query on the wonderful process that is condensation. I really am in awe of its multitude of uses and functions, (I was actually daydreaming of how to use its basic function to combat global drinkable water dearth) but after years and years of seeing it in practice, I've seemed to forgotten how most of how it comes about; so I ask, when the water beads are forming on the surface of the aforementioned milk glass, is that water being extracted/evaporated/reformed from the actual contents of the container, or is the process of the condensed air around the cooling container drawing in the surrounding invisible water vapors, which then combine and mingle in an effort to cool down the receptacle?
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There is moisture in the air. Even if it isn't humid, there is still some moisture there. Colder air holds less moisture. The air just adjacent to the milk glass is cooled by the glass, and loses some of its moisture-holding capacity, and that ends up on the side of the glass as water beads.