Steam and Superheated Steam - Steam
This demonstration illustrates the characteristics of steam under two different temperature conditions. Initially, water is simply boiled in a flask and allowed to pass through a coil of copper tubing. When a beaker is brought near the end of the tubing, the water condenses to liquid in the beaker. If a match is placed into the steam coming out of the copper tube, nothing happens. If a piece of steel wool is placed into the stream there is no observable change in the steel wool.
The size of the movie file is 3.3 MB and its duration is 48 seconds. The name of the movie file is "STEAM1.MOV" and it is located in the folder "MOVIES/STEAM".
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