Science HW help?

Question

Steam must lose it's heat of vaporization in order to condense. How does this fact help explain why steam can cause more severe burns than liquid water at it's boiling point?

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Answer 1

use  a search engine and put in the words steam,vaporization and water at it's boiling point to get real scientific answers.

Answer 2

This is the study of entropy. Entropy in general, is the amount of calories needed to change a compound from one state to another. Boiling water is in a stable state. Steam is actually, also. In order for steam to consdense, it must lose calories in the form of heat before it condenses back to water. Not only is steam hotter than boiling water which causes burns to be worse, it is the amount of calories that must be lost from the steam before it changes back into water which causes the severe burns. So where do the calories go? Welllllllllll. Unfortunately they go into your skin in the form of heat, causing your more severe burns.