What’s the difference between water boiling and it evaporating normally? Don’t both end up the same, ie. water turning into gas form?

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What’s the difference between water boiling and it evaporating normally? Don’t both end up the same, ie. water turning into gas form?

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Evaporation is the movement of a liquid to a gas below its boiling point. This happens because some water molecules will naturally have enough kinetic energy to escape into gas phase. But yes, the outcome is the same.