Light can vaporize water without heat.

MIT researchers found a new photo-molecular phenomenon. That light can vaporize water without heat. There has been suspicion that this kind of phenomenon exists. But this is the first evidence of that phenomenon. Light inputs energy into atoms, and then those atoms release extra energy into their environment.

Photo vaporization releases vapor from the water surface. Atoms release energy that they get into another atom. At the point of the surface tension, the water molecules resonate when light inputs energy to them. That forms standing waves between those water molecules, and then that energy starts to drive water molecules up. This effect is possible if the light affects all water molecules on the surface. In that case, there is no space where energy can travel.

Developers can use photo vaporization to make purified water.

That effect makes space around the atoms. And it separates water molecules from their entirety. The effect. Where light vaporizes water without heat looks a little bit like a photovoltaic phenomenon. This effect can help to determine the age of the icy shell of distant moons. A similar effect should happen when radiowaves hit the ice.

If visible light can vaporize water, that phenomenon can used to produce a very low-pressure gas. In that process, the ice is in a vacuum chamber and that light effect will separate a couple of molecules from ice. This phenomenon can used to calculate the changes in the electromagnetic environment in distant moons.

This effect can also escalate to other wavelengths. And maybe this effect explains why some very cold moons like Triton have thin atmospheres. Gas pressure on Triton is very low. It's between 1 and 2 pascals.

Mainly that atmosphere includes nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide. The last gas can form when radiation pushes oxygen and carbon atoms together. An interesting thing about that atmosphere is that the gas that forms it is in a condition that looks like quantum gas. The distance between atoms and molecules is very long.

When radiation hits those atoms they send radiation that travels longer than on Earth. The low-pressure gas is the tool that makes atomic microscopes possible. Also, the low-pressure gas can measure similar gas atoms from distances. If there is a low-pressure oxygen gas in the chamber, another oxygen atom sends radiation that causes resonance in those low-pressure atoms.

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