Why does water take time to boil on the stove, but immediately stop once taken off the stove?
In: Physics
There are two parts to boiling.
Raising the temperature to boiling point, and actually converting the water from liquid to gas once it’s at that temperature. Both parts require energy (from heat)
When you heat water up to that boiling point, it hasn’t actually boiled yet. You need to keep heating it, adding energy, in order to convert water to steam.
As soon as you take the water off the stove, that process of water turning into steam stops because energy is no longer being added.
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