Question

What produces more severe burns, boiling water or steam?
Now explain in which physical state out of the two will the particles have more energy? [3 MARKS]

Answer 1

Reasoning out: 1.5 Marks
Explanation: 1.5 Marks

Steam will cause more severe burns even though both water and steam are at the same temperature because of the presence of latent heat.
Latent heat is the heat that is used to convert a liquid to a gas without raising the temperature .
The particles in steam will have more kinetic energy, hence more heat energy.