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When you come out of a river after a dip, you feel cold. Explain.

After we come out of river water sticks to our body. That water evaporates by taking heat from our body. Thus, there is a transfer of heat from our body to water droplets. Therefore, temperature of our body reduces, and we feel cold.


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