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What is meant by wet and dry steam?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Dry steam is superheated , meaning more heat has been added resulting in no liquid phase present and the heat of vaporazation has been surpassed adding to the total enthahpy of the vapor. Wet steam is much like the steam rising from a pot of boiling water.

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