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प्रश्न
Alka was making tea in a kettle. Suddenly she felt intense heat from the puff of steam gushing out of the spout of the kettle. She wondered whether the temperature of the steam was higher than that of the water boiling in the kettle. Comment.
उत्तर
The temperature of both boiling water and steam is 100°C but steam has more energy because of latent heat of vaporisation. Hence, steam is hotter than boiling water.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Rapid conversion of water into steam is an example of
A certain quantity of water is heated from 20°C to 100°C. Its temperature is recorded after each 1 minute. The observations are:
| Time (in minute) | Temperature (in °C) |
| 0 | 20 |
| 1 | 30 |
| 2 | 40 |
| 3 | 50 |
| 4 | 60 |
| 5 | 70 |
| 6 | 80 |
| 7 | 90 |
| 8 | 100 |
| 9 | 100 |
| 10 | 100 |
| 11 | 100 |
| 12 | 100 |
Choose the correct statement of the following
A sample of water under study was found to boil at 102°C at normal temperature and pressure. Is the water pure? Will this water freeze at 0°C? Comment.
Evaporation of a liquid at room temperature leads to a ____________ effect.
____________ is the change of solid state directly to vapour state without going through the ____________ state.
The phenomenon of change of a liquid into the gaseous state at any temperature below its boiling point is called ____________.
Conversion of solid to vapour is called sublimation. Name the term used to denote the conversion of vapour to solid.
A liquid changes into a gas at a constant temperature known as its ______.
Explain the terms boiling.
