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What produces more severe burns, boiling water or steam?
As the water gets converted into steam at 100°C by gaining heat equal to its latent heat of vaporization and thus, steam is hotter than water at 100°C and causes more severe burns compared to water. Steam contains more heat in the form of latent heat of vaporization as compared to boiling water, which possesses less heat.
[Extra information: The heat energy that is supplied to change the state of a substance without changing the temperature of the substance is called its latent heat.
The two types of latent heat are:
- Latent heat of fusion
- Latent heat of vaporization
The latent heat of vaporisation of a liquid is the quantity of heat in joules required to convert 1 kilogram of the liquid at its boiling point to gas or vapour, without any change in temperature.
The latent heat of vaporisation of water is 22.5 × 105 J/kg.]
Updated on: 15-Mar-2023
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