Assertion : Water kept in an open vessel will quickly evaporate on the surface of the moon. Reason : The…

Assertion : Water kept in an open vessel will quickly evaporate on the surface of the moon. Reason : The temperature at the surface of the moon is much higher than boiling point of water.
  1. both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
  2. both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
  3. assertion is true but reason is false
  4. both assertion and reason are false.

Solution

Water would evaporate quickly because there is no atmosphere on moon, due to which surface temperature of moon is much higher than earth (maximum surface temperature of moon is $123^{\circ} \mathrm{C}$ ). .

Asked in: NEET 2002

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