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Does humid air rise or fall?
I'm asking cause I recently turned a wine fridge into a humidor and I have my heat and electronic humidifier on the bottom and beads in the middle and top. I'm trying to decide the best place to put the fan. So, if the electronic humidifier is actually releasing moisture at the bottom, will the humid air stay at the bottom, in which case the fan would be best served on the bottom, or would that humid air rise and therefor the fan should go at the top.
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Thanks!
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In my setup, I have a cigar oasis electric humidifier at the bottom, and beads at the top. I've maintained a humidity in the high 60's and haven't had any problems. I haven't needed to add a fan, but I don't think that it would hurt to have one in there.
Air is mostly nitrogen and oxygen... Nitrogen has an atomic weight of 7 while oxygen is 8... Water on the other hand is mostly hydrogen and oxygen... Hydrogen only has an atomic weight of 1...
So think of it like this...
A "molecule" of water is H20.. Which has an atomic mass of 10...
In air Nitrogen and Oxygen form pairs... (Nitrogen forms a triple bond and oxygen a double bond)
So you have N2 which has an atomic mass of 14 and O2 which has an atomic mass of 16...
hence the water molecules will "rise" amoung the Nitrogen and Oxygen molecules...
I had always thought that the humid air would rise based on how moisture would form on a mirror when the shower was running but thought that it may have just been due to the heat. Thanks for explaining that actually using science.
anyone have a tall cabinet humidor that wont mind messin with RH a tiny bit for the sake of science?