November 27, 2024, 06:36:12 PM
Forum Rules: Read This Before Posting


« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Topic: Appearances of liquid water and steam  (Read 3139 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Winga

  • Chemist
  • Full Member
  • *
  • Posts: 510
  • Mole Snacks: +39/-10
Appearances of liquid water and steam
« on: February 22, 2006, 12:09:38 PM »
Why water(l) is colourless, while steam is white (not colourless)?
Logged

Offline Bakegaku

  • Full Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 269
  • Mole Snacks: +20/-5
  • Gender: Male
  • Hydrogen peroxide is my miracle cure to everything
Re:Appearances of liquid water and steam
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2006, 02:00:25 PM »
well steam is not just water vapour, mind you.  Water vapour is colourless.  Steam is a cloud of tiny water droplets that condense out of the vapour.  These little water droplets reflect light around inside them, and it just mixes and becomes white.  It's similar to how rain will reflect light into a rainbow, but the water droplets appear white because they're more dense and the light gets bounced around more.
Logged
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing"
-Socrates

"I see, I forget.  I hear, I remember.  I do, I understand"
-Confucius

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
- Albert Einstein?

"American cartoons place characters in situations; anime
places situations around characters.  Anime characters
are not like fictional characters but more like fictional
people; their actions stem directly from their personalities,
and not just as a means to move the story's plot
forward.  We are made to sympathize with them, and
not simply be entertained by them."
~John Oppliger~
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
Sponsored Links