Mina was making tea in a kettle. Suddenly she felt intense heat from the puff if steam gushing out of the spot 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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The temperature of steam and the water boiling in the kettle is the same. But the particles of steam have more energy in the form of latent heat of vaporisation than the particles of water. This energy is released when the steam condenses to water. Therefore, steam is hotter than the boiling water.
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