Boiling water?!
Answers: when the water has smoke and bubbles, it is boiling. How about there is smoke but no bubble, is it boiling?
Let's start by saying what (1) boiling is, as well as what the (2)"smoke" and (3)"bubbles" are.
(1) Boiling is when a liquid turns into a gas. When we boil water we mean that we are turning water as a liquid into water as a gas.
(2) The bubbles contain water in its gas form. They float to the surface, where the water particles mix with other particles in air.
(3) Once the water (as a gas) escapes the kettle it cools down. If the water cools below 100oC, the water condenses back into a liquid again. The smoke that you describe is actually small droplets of liquid water suspended in the air--that's what clouds in the sky are: small droplets of liquid water too small to fall.
The suspended droplets of liquid water either stick together to form bigger droplets large enough to fall (rain), or they come into contact with a surface forming dew.
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Anyway, back to your question: is water boiling if it's not producing bubbles? No.
You've probably experimented yourself, and found bubbles are produced when the water's hottest. Leave it to cool, the bubbles stop being formed, but there's still 'smoke'. Why?
Once you stop heating the water, you stop adding energy to form water vapour (bubbles). The water vapour still in the kettle, formed earlier when the kettle was on, begins to cool, and condenses into liquid water.
no just hot
No, give it more time.
its steam not smoke you narna
your stupid im not answering,
No its just hot when it starts to boil is when its boiling:]
Smoke? I sure hope not! When the water is steaming but no bubbles are present, it's not boiling. Boiling means there are bubbles.
Many folks think that steaming-but-not-quite-boiling water is the best to use when making brewed tea.
no, its just steaming, but it wont be long
if smoke and no bubbles no. if there bubbles and smoke yes