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by zwieback 964 days ago
Yeah, I have the same question. The blurb is too unclear but suggests it's almost more of a mechanical thing: the photon bumps into some molecules that are almost already on the gas side of things and that's enough to turn them into fog. So it's not like the water is heating up and then jumping out, it's more like it's getting knocked to the gas side, like in a humidifier.