An investigator designed an experiment to model the physiological role of sweating in mammalian thermoregulation.

They set up two identical metal canisters, each fitted with a digital temperature probe:

• Canister X was wrapped in a single layer of dry paper towel.
• Canister Y was wrapped in an identical single layer of paper towel that had been saturated with water at room temperature.

Hot water was added to both canisters, and the temperature of the water in each was recorded every 30 seconds for 12 minutes.