Re: Frost?/Dewpoint? slight correction

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• From: Cal French ccfrench@tcsn.net>
• Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:24:13 -0700
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In an earlier message I think I implied that frost is frozen dew.
Actually, it is
not.  Frost comes straight from water vapor through a process called
sublimation.
When dew freezes, it simply forms a coating of ice on whatever it was coating.
The word "frost" is also used to indicate freezing temperatures, so when
someone
says there were ten degrees of frost, he or she means it was ten degrees below
the freezing point of water.


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