Alka was making tea in a kettle .Suddenly she felt intense heat from the puff of steam gushing out of the spout of the kettle. She wondered whether the temperature of the steam was higher than that of the water boiling in the kettle. Comment.
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Steam contains the latent heat of vaporization [the heat which the boiling water absorb to get converted to vapour (steam) at the boiling point of water.Therefore, temperature of steam is same as that of boiling water.
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because of latent heat of vapourisation.
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