How does vaporized liquid (specifically from electronic cigarettes/ vapes) not burn you?

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Title says all. How does vapor from e-cigs not burn you when steam from boiling water can cause blistering?

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The droplets are small enough that they cool very rapidly, since they have a large surface area and not much volume of liquid inside they can not only cool by dissipating heat, but they also vaporize, and that sucks even more heat away

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