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New Atlas: Water can evaporate with just light, no heat, says surprising study (newatlas.com)

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[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OK the relevant classes are many years behind me (and I don't work in a science field), but since photons are going to transfer some energy to any particle they interact with, how is this not effectively the same as evaporation with heat? This sounds like a tiny bit of radiant heat to me.

I would guess it's not or we wouldn't be discussing the article, but I'm not seeing the difference.