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Assertion : Water kept in an open vessel will quickly evaporate on the surface of the moon.
Reason : The temperature at the surface of the moon is much higher than boiling point of the water.

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Water would evaporate quickly becausc there is no atmosphere on moon, due to which surface temperature of moon is much higher than earth (maximum surface temperature of moon is `123^(@)C).`
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