Not actually. Most steam is below the boiling temperature. Once the excited steam leaves a heat source it rapidly transfers heat to anything around it cooler including air. Once it drops below boiling the gas begins to become a liquid (water) and tiny water droplets condense. They are atomized (very tiny) and as such are suspended in air (like a cloud or mist) This is why steam leaves wet spots when you block it with an object. Super heated steam is kept above boiling point and remains "dry." In fact super heated steam can be used to ty things in industrial processes. Because it doesn't contain water droplets as it is kept hot enough to be a gas it can be used to power high speed machinery like turbines which a noncompressible liquid (like water) would damage. So while it may seem obvious one would actually be wrong to assume most steam is above the boiling point of the liquid state of the gas.
You described condensing steam which is essentially really hot water vapour. True steam is always above boiling temperature and is invisible to the naked eye. The best description would be when you're boiling a kettle. The 'steam' you see is actually water vapour and the real steam is the tiny portion between the spout and the vapour; the small gap where you only see distortion caused by heat
Sorry I wasn't more precise. Please feel free to insert "that which is often called or perceived as steam" where the offending errors occur. By default "steam" is a gas and is only steam so long as it remains above a temperature where it can become solid or liquid. I wrote the reply in the hopes that these posts were people who did not know of the subject, ignoring the possibility they were non constructive sarcasm aimed at the somewhat inaccurate title. Someone found out a science fact they thought interesting enough to share, so I figured I'd support that. The limited text format of this site can sometimes make it difficult to use absolute precision when forming ideas, and it can lengthen replies so often one must assume certainly logical inference on the part of the reader. This is the internet though so I should be more careful. The overall idea was to impart that superheated steam is a specific name given to a liquid medium kept at temperature to remain in a gaseous phase....
possessing certain properties which make it useful for various processes, but without overrunning the character limit or utilizing language or concepts that might make it inaccessible to a diverse audience of unknown knowledge base. The overall goal being to encourage scientific discovery and excitement, and maybe encourage further research into the subject and related areas. It wasn't meant as a comprehensive or peer reviewed thesis on thermodynamics, steam power in general, or any other area of science. If you need more things to pick at, if you re read it you will find I took a few more liberties and applied vagueries or not strictly technical facts which can be pointed out to show how much more intelligent you are than the rest of the class.
Yeah but no-one picked at you or your statement. I merely pointed out you misinterpreted my statement; which was purely sarcastic. You were the one who commented to try and teach me more about a topic because you assumed I was ignorant. So...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As my last reply said- I didn't assume anyone was ignorant. I assumed you were either uninformed on the topic, or being sarcastic. Let's imagine your first post had contained the information your reply to me did. In this alternate reality not only would myself and others be able to read it unambiguously, but you would have provided potentially useful information. In our reality you were being sarcastic, and repeating the same thing as a previous poster to boot making it twice as pointless. So perhaps the OP didn't have your knowledge base or linguistic skill, so you called them out on it after they tried to share something they felt was cool enough to show everyone, and in calling them out you didn't even let them know why they were being mocked. So other than "punching down" to make fun of someone interested in something they either don't understand or couldn't phrase precisely in the format required, or making oneself feel smug, what was the purpose again?
Rhetorical question, and already answered by yourself and confirmed in the last post by me. Now triple confirmed. That is at least one major failure in reading comprehension in each reply I've gotten, coupled with the fact that the original post I replied to was a duplicate rephrasing of another post previously posted in this thread by another leads me to a place where I don't see much point conversing in text based medium as the medium seems outside your grasp. Best of luck amusing yourself by mocking or being contemptuous to others. We were all teenagers once I suppose. I have lost interest though in continuing this so have a fun day.
No ways!
Steam hotter than waters boiling point???
Impossible!!!!
It's the only reason I come to funsubstance.
You too