it is already liquid if it is cooler water
The lid is cooler than the steam (water vapor) produced by boiling the water. When the water vapor contacts that cooler surface, it condenses into liquid water.
Condensation is the process by which a gas or vapor changes into a liquid as it cools. This occurs when warm air containing water vapor comes into contact with a surface that is cooler than the air. The water vapor then loses heat to the cooler surface and transforms into liquid water.
Condensation.Related Information:For water vapor to become liquid water, it must loose energy, molecule by molecule. Often this occurs when water vapor contacts a cooler surface. In the atmosphere, water vapor condenses onto a small, cooler particle to form a very small droplet of liquid water, or condenses onto an existing droplet of water making it larger.
This is called condensation
Water vapor is different from liquid water because water vapor is a gas, and liquid water is a liquid.
Water Vapor is technically a gas and Liquid water is obviously a liquid.
Water can't condense. Condensation is about something turning from a gas to a liquid. Once it has become a liquid it can't be come liquid-er.
liquid can be transformed into water vapor.
CondensationCondensation is the process by which water vapor changes to liquid.
They are made of different states of matter
Liquid water is changed to water vapor by the process of evaporation (or boiling)Water vapor forms into clouds (liquid droplets) by the process of condensation
When water vapor loses energy it "turns" into a liquid