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Originally Posted by ICER
Correct. a pound of water should weigh the same. But if that water was steam? how would it weigh? Gas have a very low density because the particles are so spaced out in the container.
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It shouldn't make the slightest bit of difference. Gravity is constant, right? And when the water boils into steam, matter is conserved, right? So we have constant mass and constant gravity. There are only three terms in the formula weight=mass*gravity. So weight must be constant as well. Just because it's a gas doesn't mean that it has any less weight. The particles just have too much kinetic energy to settle into a solid/liquid.
Oh, and I knew why solutes raised/lowered BP/FP, I was wondering how they could make something boil
faster. That quote agrees with me that it would take more energy. So it boils faster because it needs more energy to boil?
