doctors advise to put stripes of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high temperature.why?
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The wet cloth contains water.
Water has high latent heat capacity ie it take in energy (here heat from forehead ) to raise the temperature of water.
Hence water takes up the heat energy from te forehead to lower the temperature.
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Water has high latent heat capacity ie it take in energy (here heat from forehead ) to raise the temperature of water.
Hence water takes up the heat energy from te forehead to lower the temperature.
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The wet cloth contains water.
Wet cloth when placed over forehead allows water to evaporate and it reduces body temperature.
As Evaporation causes cooling
Wet cloth when placed over forehead allows water to evaporate and it reduces body temperature.
As Evaporation causes cooling
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