• Question: How hot can water boil

    Asked by 285tund46 to Aimee on 9 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Aimee Goodall

      Aimee Goodall answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Water is a liquid, when it boils it turns into a gas, this happens at 100 degrees celsius.
      You can also turn water into a solid by freezing it at a temperature below zero degrees.

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    Hussain commented on :

    Yup. You could theoretically ‘boil’ water above 100 degrees Celsius, if you could manage to trap it somehow and keep heating it. Of course it would be a gas and technically called steam. This principle is behind the steam engine and steam-powered electricity generators! You could heat water molecules up to the temperature where the hydrogen and oxygen bonds become so hot they start to break (this would be very hot if it was done in a giant vat, but plants do this without heating up using photosynthesis)!