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.
All Wikipedia text
is available under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
Search Encyclopedia
Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
... given Thomas à Kempis universal fame in the
Western churches is the De imitatione Christi. It
is the pearl of all the writings of the mystical
German-Dutch school of ...