Question

Give reasons :

Steam is hotter than boiling water

Answer 1

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Steam is more dangerous than boiling water because boiling water is liquid and steam is a gas. Steam has latent heat of vaporization. When steam comes in contact with human skin, first it will get converted to liquid water. In this process a lot of heat is released due to phase change causing severe burns.

Boiling water is also dangerous but there is no phase change, thus risk is lesser.


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