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Explain with reasons the phenomenon.
Steam causes more severe burns than boiling water at the same temperature.

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The latent heat of vapourisation being very high `(540 cal//g)`, every gram of steam has 540 calories more heat energy than that of boiling water that is released by steam causing more pain than boiling water.
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