>>14272749>does condensation pull heat onto a cold surface for its phase change?yes. heat is transfered onto the surface of the condenser.
>>14272749>if you had a really cold bottle filled with ice, would it cool faster if you wiped it off when the water condensation had perfectly acclimated with a zero friction perfectly acclimated towel to allow more water to condense onto it with new heat??not really. the temperature of the saturated mixture in your bottle will remain perfectly constant until all the ice is melted. then the temperature of the water will increase to come to equillibrium with the humid air around it.
the humidty in the air condenses on the cold bottle. in condensing, the latent heat in the moisture is transfered to the bottle. this makes it slightly warmer. if you wipe the condensation off, you are allowing more humidity to condense and the bottle comes to equillibrium slightly faster.
>essentially, is condensation a heating effect for the area it happens to, the way evaporation is a cooling effect?yes, basically. refrigerators are neat :)
