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¿Question #5150?
puffinge: What part of the body is responsible for regulating the temperature of sweat?

Headonpillow: Actually as you're talking about sweat temperature, what regulates it causing sweat evaporation and subsequential lowering of body temperature is body itself. Heat gets transfered from skin to the drops of sweat and due to the high thermal capacity of water they can have an higher temperature than our hot body. So heat from the skin causes temperature of sweat to rise, but it's not regulated and tends to a maximum point considering relative humidity in the environment, when that point is reached sweat can effectively leave your body in form of steam. Anyway that's what I remember from elementary school hahaha, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Quinn61107: Trick question - sweat regulates body temperature (via evaporation).
bcooperok: perineum.
Spirit of 70: The brain.
jellospike: BRAINS...
aleo09: the pituitary gland?
sovSoyuz: hypofyse (in danish)
Goodjoel: your head
Chrisboote: Who's sweat?
DHEK: I don't know. The skin?
heavymetalhamster: hypothalamus
vampywife: i don't think there is a regulated temperature of sweat, but i could be wrong.
KDSN: Skin
jcrim13: The meeple gland.
play an instrument: ummmm
scriptorum: I don't believe sweat temperature is regulated. Body temperature is regulated, however, by perspiration.
Deeghter: None! It's a physical reaction on ambient air temperature in relationship with body surface temperature. Additionally there's the chill wind factor having an influence on sweat temperature depending on wind velocity.
keldrak: i don't care
Loquutus: Sweat is body temperature. It cools you off by evaporating.
Beowulf: Without being a pre-med major, I'd have to say the skin. Then it's up to convection to cool you down.
brainrob: Come on - surely you can do better than that.
djlg: None.
seppo21: I didn't think the temperature of sweat was regulated.
POvidiusNaso: The subconscious.
MochaKimono: The sweat glands?
MisterCranky: Yawn.
jttm: Umm... the other way round. Sweat regulates the temperature of the body.
Lord_Prussian: No idea
skelebone: Nutsack?
CDRodeffer: The lymph nodes?
chaddyboy_2000: Cranky can totally tak you, man.
puffinge: the nose