Question

water As Ice has cooling effect as water extreme can cause severe burns

Answer 1

Water forms ICE at a cooler temperature than our own body temperature, below 0 Celsius. Due to this, it possesses less kinetic and vibrational energy, so when it touches our skin, as our body has more heat, heat from our skin transfers to the ice, thus producing cooling effect.

However, water forms steam only at high temperature, much more than our own temperature. Due to higher temp, the molecules possess more vibrational energy and when it touches our skin, the energy transfers as heat from the steam to our skin, which vibrates our own skin molecules, as a transfer of excess energy, which thus damages cells and causes a burn.

Answer 2

hi
when water is in ice state it absorbs heat to transform into water and there for the high cooling effect
but when water is in the form of steam it looks for a place to give out the high latent heat of vaporization and therefore have severe burns