What produces more severe burns, boiling water or steam ?

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What produces more severe burns, boiling water or steam ?

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Steam causes more severe burns than boiling water. The reason is that it releases the extra amount of heat (latent heat) which it has already taken during vaporization.

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Rigidity, compressibility, fluidity, filling a gas container, shape, kinetic energy and density.