Is Steam still water?

Steam is the gas formed when water passes from the liquid to the gaseous state. At the molecular level, this is when H2O molecules manage to break free from the bonds (i.e. hydrogen bonds) keeping them together.
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Is steam still h20?

This is a classic "rectangles-squares" question. All steam is water vapor, but not all water vapor is steam. Water vapor just means the gas form of water. Water is a molecule, not specifically a liquid.
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Is steam the same as water?

To put it simply, a solid or liquid substance can change into gas, and that resulting gas is called a vapor. On the other hand, steam is a technical term for water vapor or water in a gaseous state.
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Is steam always pure water?

Boiling a water mixture doesn't always produce pure water. Boiling a solution of salt and water (or evaporating the water) will separate the salt from the water, but those are compounds with very different properties. In the making of distilled alcohols (Ethanol), the vapor phase has more alcohol than water.
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Is steam boiling water?

When water is heated it evaporates, which means it turns into water vapor and expands. At 100℃ it boils, thus rapidly evaporating. And at boiling point, the invisible gas of steam is created. The opposite of evaporation is condensation, which is when water vapor condenses back into tiny droplets of water.
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Is steam a gas?

Steam is the gas formed when water passes from the liquid to the gaseous state.
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Is steam a liquid?

I have been happily teaching that steam is still a liquid, which then becomes an invisible gas called water vapour.
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Why is steam white?

Ordinarily, steam is completely colorless. As steam cools and condenses it becomes visible as water vapor and can produce a white cloud. This cloud is just like a natural cloud in the sky. It is odorless and tasteless.
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Is steam the same as air?

Same thing with air and water steam: they are about as different as it gets. Evaporated water doesn't become air it becomes a gas, water vapour. Your confusion is between the terms gas and air: air is a specific mixture of gases; water vapour is just water in gas rather than liquid form.
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Is steam wet or dry?

Steam is water in the gas phase. Steam can form as a result of evaporation or boiling of water. There are three major types of steam as wet steam, dry steam, and superheated steam.
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What state of matter is steam?

Steam is water in the gas phase. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization.
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Is ice still H2O?

Ice is H2O. c. Water vapor is H2O Adam Sennet has no problem with this. Nor does he object to my claim that 'water' has a reading in which it designates a substance instances of which may be liquid, gaseous, or frozen.
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Why is steam so powerful?

This form of water is also called water vapor, and it's very powerful stuff. This is because steam has a lot of energy. When you took the liquid form of water and heated it on the stove, you increased the energy in those water molecules. When you get energized, you move around a lot more than when you're tired, right?
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Why do we use steam instead of hot water?

Steam's inherent advantage over water comes down to efficiency. At the same temperature, steam transfers its heating energy much more efficiently than liquid water.
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Is vapour and steam same?

Steam is the vapour obtained by heating a substance to its boiling point and as such is "hot", or better at boiling T. Vapour is the gas phases in equilibrium with a substance, or the part of it which escapes in an open system.
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Is steam a gas or water?

steam, odourless, invisible gas consisting of vaporized water. It is usually interspersed with minute droplets of water, which gives it a white, cloudy appearance.
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Does steam have oxygen?

Because the solubility of oxygen in water is very low under these conditions, 97 to 98% of the oxygen in the incoming water is released to the steam and is purged from the system by venting. Although the remaining oxygen is not soluble under equilibrium conditions, it is not readily released to the steam.
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Are clouds steam?

While it's true that clouds contain water, they actually aren't made of water vapor. If they were, you wouldn't be able to see them. The water that makes up clouds is in liquid or ice form. The air around us is partially made up of invisible water vapor.
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Is steam solid or liquid?

Water goes through three states of matter easily. Ice is when water is solid, steam is when water is gas, and water usually refers to its liquid state.
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What is steam called?

Steam is the name given to tiny droplets of water that are suspended in air, which often occurs when water has been turned into a gas called water vapour.
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What is steam water?

Steam is the gas formed when water passes from the liquid to the gaseous state. At the molecular level, this is when H2O molecules manage to break free from the bonds (i.e. hydrogen bonds) keeping them together.
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Is water wet?

Water is wet, in the sense of being a liquid which flows easily, because its viscosity is low, which is because its molecules are rather loosely joined together.
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Is steam a solid?

The students are all water molecules and will change between three different states of matter: solid (ice), liquid (water) and gas (steam).
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Who created steam?

Rick Ellis has his fingerprints all over modern gaming. His chief claim to gaming fame is his role as founder and lead developer of Valve Software's Steam gaming and marketplace platform, and he was also a key player in games like Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike.
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How hot can steam get?

When water is heated at atmospheric pressure, its temperature rises until it reaches 212°F (100°C), the highest temperature at which water can exist at this pressure.
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