transpiration

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The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration.

The evaporation of water, or exhalation of aqueous vapor, from cells and masses of tissue.

The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.

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Because transpiration takes place during the cooler, more humid night hours, water loss is significantly reduced. Source: Internet

At that suction the plant cannot sustain its water needs as water is still being lost from the plant by transpiration; the plant's turgidity is lost, and it wilts. Source: Internet

From this, he calculated the transpiration per leaf, then per tree, multiplied this by the number of possible trees per hectare and concluded that each day a hectare of these trees pumped 36 cubic metres of water into the atmosphere. Source: Internet

During transpiration or evaporation, this latent heat is removed from surface liquid, cooling the earth's surface. Source: Internet

By this means, plants can continue to take up nutrients even at night, when water is only slowly absorbed into the roots as transpiration has almost stopped. Source: Internet

Evaporation and transpiration contribute to the precipitation over land. Source: Internet

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