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Why does all the water of the earth not get evaporated during hot summer days?​

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Water has a high latent heat of vaporization, so it takes a large amount of heat to get converted into vapor. Although evaporation takes place continuously, there is simply not enough heat produced to evaporate all the water on earth at once.

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