temp of steam

Sunbear, The ideal gas law is not really usefull in this situation. For one thing water is far from an ideal gas. However it would work as a close enough approximation as long as you stayed within the gas phase area of the phase diagram. Also, we’re not talking about a closed system. The pressure is constant at 1 atm and the volume of the water increases about 1000 times from water to steam. The easiest way to find the saturation pressure of water at a certain temp is to use either a steam table or a phase diagram. Once again though, for practical purposes you would apply them for a closed system. It doesn’t work for this system.


“If you stick your finger in a pie, whatever is in the pie will be on your finger, and whatever is on your finger will be in the pie…unless you wear a rubber glove”----some demented old lady

Well, use any table then.

Continuing with steam/sauna, I have a report of 120 deg C in a sauna.Nobody was in it, but it broke the thermometer at that point. They used to kill lice in the Finnish army(about 1940) with this method, from clothing, not people.

Geez. And of course I meant Mr Thin Skin, not Mr Thin Line. Our A/C was out for a few days, and I think all this talk about heat was making me loopy. :slight_smile: