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Hurricane's fuel

 
 meteorologists are saying,    
"the warm ocean water is the hurricane's fuel"  
 Can I put this "fuel" into my car and will it go?  
    
That lousy explanation did not lead me to understanding.  
   
So just start thinkin...  
A bowl of water is heavier than a bowl of air.  
A towel can get wet  
A towel can get dry.  
 
Air can get humid,  
or it can be dry.  
 
Is humid air heavier than dry air?  
   
 Welcome to my Science Lecture.
On your mark  
Get set  

GO.  This is an edit.  This thing is too long.
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Yes, believe it or not, wet humid air is actually LIGHTER, more floaty, than
dry air.  That is because an H2O molecule, consisting of weights 1+1+ 16, adds up to a weight of 18, which is two H weights, and one O weight.
An Oxygen molecule, O2, weights 16+16 = 32 " grams per mole"

( A mole is like the word DOZEN.  For eggs, you might get 24 ounces per dozen.  A mole is like 6.02x 10^23 particles.  If you had that many of H, it would weigh about 1 gram. Oxygen? about 16 Grams.  Such is the Mole. )

So obviously if you add H20 molecules to the air, they are going to take up a spot that would have otherwise have been occupied by N2 (14+14=28) or O2 (16+16=32)

So yeah, when the air over a warm ocean gets H2O knocked into it, overall, that air is now LIGHTER, and lighter stuff RISES, rises UP, making the big swirly swirly.
end of story.  Longer version below.
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GLOSSARY BREAK:  
Atom: a single atomic particle.
                     
Molecule: A single unit, made up of one or more atoms, bonded together.  
 
Examples: Helium is an atom, it comes as a single particle, not bonded to another. Like a bachelor.
 
Water, H two O, is two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atom bonded together,
So water is a molecule, and cannot be called an Atom.
 
Out of convienience, Helium can also be called a molecule,  even though it comes in nature as single solitary.
 
 
When liquid air molecules bounce    
their way into the gas phase air, the hair becomes humid, because  
it contains a certain percentage of water vapour.    
   
The air around us, is mostly Nitrogen molecules,  
at about 80 percent
Oxygen molecules at 18 percent
The remaining two percent are other gasses like argon, neon, zenon, helium and of course the greenhouse gas given off by our breath and our cars, Carbon Dioxide.  
   
Some molecules weigh more than others, or weigh less, like HELIUM. (He)
has a weight of "4", and it is a single atom.  
Oxygen molecules are two oxygens bonded together, each weighing 16.
16+16=32 
Carbon Dioxide, is a gas molecule with one carbon atom stuck to two Oxygen atoms, 12+16+16=44 for the weight of the molecule particle.
Water, or "H 2 O"  has two hydrogens and one oxygen in its molecule.  
  1+1+16=18
 
If I have a balloon filled with helium, and a balloone filled with Nitrogen,
How does the total molecule count compare?  
 
I mean, helium atoms are very light, weighing in at only 4.
Nitrogen, or N2, weighs in at 14+14=28, much heavier than helium.
 
Now, imagine a heavy bowling ball bouncing against a light volleyball.  
Or, the other way around,  
Throw a volleyball at a stationary bowling ball.  
   
What happens?  
Yeah right, I need to ask?    
A stationary bowling ball may lazily start to roll away, after the hit, and the volleyball gonna bounce off with most of its original speed.  
 
If the bowling ball was moving, it would hit the volleyball, and make it move a lot.  
   
Temperature, is the energy, on average, which relates to speed of the particles.
 
We can do some mental gymnastics,  
The Helium particles are bouncing both faster, and more bounces per second, against the balloon wall,
 in the end,
That does the same thing as heavier molecules which will bounce slower and fewer times per second, but pack a greater punch every time it hits the balloon wall inside, so it comes out the same, no matter if the atoms are heavy or light, it will require the same number to fill a balloon.  
 
An air filled balloon is heavier than a  helium filled balloon, although each will have the same number of molecules bouncing inside,to inflate the balloon.  
 
 Remember that party you went to, with a helium party balloon in your hands, and you let it go. Do you wish you could ride away with that balloon?  You can, you know.  
You are riding on your helium balloon, and blow out to sea.
In late summer, it is a warm  ocean.  
The air becomes moist, humid, laden with air.   In fact, fully humid air, at 85 degrees farenheit, can absorb up to about 4 % of water molecules.  
   
So the question is, is humid, wet, moist air,    
Heavier, or    
Lighter,  
than Dry air?  
 
We are now prepared to answer that question.
   
From practical experience, a wet towel is a lot heavier than a dry one.  
   
But, when water enters the air, it is no longer a liquid, it becomes a gas.  
You can see thru moist air, just as well as dry.   you can wave your hand thru it, and it does not have any liquid splashing around.  
   
Let us look at the molecules in humid air.  
80 percent of it is Nitrogen, N2, weighing in at  14+14=28
weve got 18 percent Oxygen, O2, (Oh Two), weighing in at 16+16= 32, and  
around 4% of water, H2O, or 1+1+16=18.  
   
If we take the same number of molecules of dry air, composed of 28, and 36,    
   
which is going to be lighter, or less dense?      
 
Well, the humid hair has some lighter molecules in the mix, so overall, humid air is a little bit lighter.  
 
The more humid air next to the ocean surface, being lighter, will rise upwards,  
and the heavier dry air will swoop down to take its place.    
 
All that air over the vast warm late summer ocean, will rise, and, like water going down the drain in your used bathwater, the rising moist air will create a whirlpool, or hurricane.  
   
Well, there you go,    
thats the fuel  
humid air.  
its lighter.
Written by rabbitquest
Published | Edited 31st Aug 2020
Author's Note
I was just a wonderin about how hurricanes do their business
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