Or, to ask a little more precisely: How wet does steam get? I don't know the answer to this. However, it takes energy to overcome volumetic tension (commonly called surface tension). How much water will break off a boiling surface into small suspendable droplets, and how many of these will be fround in terms of droplet size at a level above the surface is a duanting theoretical task.
I think it's best to find emperical answers with a bit of suspended material such as the styrofoam I suggested, and you-all seem to reject as meaningless. A little imagination could be in order. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Joshua Cude <[email protected]> wrote: > You've [Lomax] said this several times. But you have not supported it. Why > can't the steam be wet; i.e. a mist of droplets entrained in water vapor? > Your idea of a filled chimney with water "overflowing" makes no sense to me > when you think that steam many times more voluminous and/or faster has to > get through this standing water. Lazily bubbling through would not cut it. > > >
