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Steam

Steam is the gaseous phase of water. At standard atmospheric pressure, water boils and turns to steam at 100 ° Celsius. As a gas, steam occupies about sixteen hundred times the volume of water, and that expansion can be converted into a mechanical force and harnessed to provide useful energy in a steam engine.



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