which is more harmful 100 centigrades of water or 100 centigrades of steam?

Question

I want to know which is more harmful 100 centigrades of water or 100 centigrades of steam and why.

Answer 1

don't touch either you fool you will get burnt/scolded

Answer 2

A tricky question. Because 100 degree water will spill it is most dangerous. But the heat is more in steam if the quantity is same because steam contains more heat than water at 100 degree centigrade. Steam contains lat en heat also at the same temperature. It all depends where you use.

Answer 3

When you heat water, it takes a certain amount of energy to raise the temperature. This is called the specific heat, latent heat or specific enthalpy (and maybe other names). The figure for this is Cm = 4.1855 Joule/gram/°C or 4185.5J/kg/°C at 15°C. As one Joule = 1 W.s, this is 1.16264Wh to raise 1kg of water by 1°C. Depending on the temperature and pressure, there will be more or less water converted to vapour, and boiling occurs at some temperature, which at sea level (around 1013mB) is close to 100°C. Boiling is when vapour forms vigorously within the body of water, not just issuing from the surface. The water then continues to boil at 100°C while absorbing extra heat. As long as the pressure does not change, the temperature remains at 100°C until all the water is all gone. The heat to achieve this (convert water to vapour) is called specific heat of vaporization, Enthalpy, or latent heat of vaporisation and probably a few other names too. It explains why it takes a few minutes to boil the water in a saucepan, and an hour or two to boil a saucepan dry. It also explains why there is so much energy in steam. The energy to convert water by mass at 100°C to vapour at 100°C = 2257J/g = 2257kJ/kg = 2.257MJ/kg = 626.944Wh/kg. This is much more energy than taken to raise the temperature from 0-100°C. If the pressure is reduced, boiling occurs at a lower temperature as at higher altitudes. If the pressure is increased, it occurs at a higher temperature, as in a steam boiler or pressure cooker or autoclave.

Answer 4

They're going to be the same. The "steam" is actually water vapor. When water is under high pressure- like 1500 pounds per square inch- crews of submarines use broom handles to find the leak. The steam will cut the broom handle right in half.

At Boeing, we had a Water Jet cutter, and it could cut 1/2" of aluminum with great precision.

Answer 5

100 centigrade of steam is more harmful than 100 centegrade water because the energy possessed by steam at the same temperature is more than the water present at that temperature,latent heat of vapourisation is also added to the water at this steasm condition

Answer 6

Steam has much more energy in it at 100 degrees c. It has the heat of vaporization and will cause more severe burns.

Answer 7

Steam. It takes additional energy to convert water to steam, so the steam carries more energy.

Caveat: this is for equal masses, not volumes. Steam is far less dense.

Answer 8

water, but the most hamrful would be boiling oil (it gets more than 100 c)

Answer 9

Depends on how you define harmful and what it is harmful too...