text: does hot water dry faster then cold water?   yes, it does.    here's how evaporation works: the molecules of the water are bouncing around and colliding with each other, randomly changing direction and speed all the time.  when one molecule near the surface randomly gets a kick towards the surface (if it's moving fast enough to overcome the strength of hydrogen bonding) it will exit the condensed water and literally come shooting out of the liquid and into the air.    the reverse process (condensation) happens at the same time - water molecules in the atmosphere will randomly go shooting into the surface of the liquid, where they are captured by water's hydrogen bonds.  if the air is humid enough, this will happen at the same rate as evaporation and the result will be called a dynamic equilibrium - water is evaporating and condensing in equal amounts and the water level will appear static.  anyway, if you turn the temperature of the water up, the molecules move faster.  this is how we interpret the meaning of temperature on the microscopic level.  so, faster-moving molecules are more likely to overcome the hydrogen bonding, and therefore more often escape the water's surface, which results in faster evaporation.