How does wearing cotton clothes help in summer?

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asked Jan 3, 2017 in Science by shivangi (4,184 points) 3 28 126

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answered Jan 3, 2017 by Abhishek Kumar (14,593 points) 5 9 37
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In summer we wear cotton clothes because cotton being a good absorber of water helps in absorbing the sweat and exposes it to the atmosphere for evaporation. When sweat evaporates from our body it takes heat from our body. Thus, our body loses heat and gets cooled.

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