Question

why does steam produce more burns than boiling water?

Answer 1

Answer:

Steam produces more burns than boiling water because the latent heat of steam is more than the water. It means that steam has greater heat energy than boiling water which causes more severe burns.

Answer 2

Steam produces more burns than boiling because boiling just requires slight latent heat of vaporisation whereas steam incurs a phase change, which requires comparatively more energy.

In boiling, the liquid requires lesser energy as during boiling, already enough heat energy is supplied so that the attractive force between the constituent particles of matter can be overcome.

But in steam, much more heat energy is required because for the change of the state of matter, a lot of energy is required to separate the matter particles and convert it into vapours.

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