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13.6 Exercise 1

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Freeze drying is a process in which substances, such as foods, are dried by placing them in a vacuum chamber and lowering the atmospheric pressure around them. How does the lowered atmospheric pressure speed the drying process, and why does it cause the temperature of the food to drop?

OpenStax College Physics 2e, 13.6 Humidity, Evaporation, and Boiling, exercise 1

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