Explain it to me like I’m five.
How can I sit in a 190 degree sauna for 20 minutes and be comfortable but any hot tub higher than 104 degrees is unsafe, 150 degree water leaves burns on your skin.
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Steam is about 0.58kg/m^(3). Liquid water is about 1000kg/m^(3). If you were to condense 1 cubic meter of steam (580 grams), you would end up with a little over 2 cups of water.
Consider the amount of energy that takes 2 cups of water, and then imagine all that energy spread over a cubic meter instead of just those 2 cups. You can see that the energy is *very* spread out. Not much of it is going to find its way into your body compared to if you were soaking in a hot tub.
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