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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Yes, both evaporation and boiling will produce the exact same thing: water vapor. The only difference is the speed with which it happens, and the amount of energy you need to input. Vapor from boiling and vapor from evaporation are 100% chemically identical, and indistinguishable from each other.