Which produces more severe burns: boiling water or steam? Why? - Vidyadip

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Which produces more severe burns: boiling water or steam? Why?

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Steam causes more severe burns than boiling water because the steam contains more heat, in the form of latent heat, than boiling water. Hence, when steam falls on our skin and condenses to produce water it gives out $22.5 \times 105$ joules per kilogram more heat than boiling water.

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