<VV> Re: VirtualVairs Digest, Vol 6, Issue 61

[James Davis]

Just to be technically correct....  Steam is vaporized water with a 
temperature equal to or greater than the boiling point of water at a 
specific pressure.  If the water vapor has a temperature less than the 
boiling point of water at that pressure, it is simply water vapor, not 
steam.  The there is saturated steam and super-saturated steam, but that is 
another chapter in the Lee & Lee steam tables.
Jim Davis



At 08:24 PM 7/6/2005, RoboMan91324 at aol.com wrote:
>Hi Mike,
>
>When water boils, you get water vapor AKA; steam.  This is a change of state,
>not a chemical process.  Of course, you are right, it is quite compressible
>in its gaseous (water vapor) state as are all gasses.
>
>Doc