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Evaporation

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Dr Dave Campbell
Wherever there is liquid water – whether it’s in the oceans or whether it’s in the soil as soil water, or in a river, or in a lake, or within plants – that liquid water can be turned to water vapour, and those water vapour molecules can move into the atmosphere.
 

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Published: 15 April 2009
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