Researchers solve evaporation mystery

[Eldorado]

"....determining when and how quickly a liquid will convert to a vapor has been stymied by questions about how -- and how much -- the temperature changes at the point where the liquid meets the vapor, a concept known as temperature discontinuity.

"Those questions have made it more difficult to create more efficient processes using evaporation, but now researchers from the University of Houston have reported answers to what happens at that interface, addressing 20 years of conflicting findings. The work was reported in the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

"The temperature discontinuity was first reported in 1999 by Canadian researchers G. Fang and C.A. Ward, who noted that they were unable to explain the phenomenon through classical mechanics. The new work solves that mystery."

Full article at Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200113141933.htm

"Temperature Discontinuity at an Evaporating Water Interface"

Paper Abstract at ACS: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b10838

[Piney]

I wonder if atmospheric pressure factors in?