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The more water in the kettle, the longer it will take to reach boiling point. This is why it is wasteful in energy to boil a full kettle if you only want to brew a small cup of tea.

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To boil water a quantity of heat must be added to the water. If there is more water it requires more heat be added. The source of heat can only produce so much heat in a given period of time. So it takes it longer to produce the greater amount of heat to boil the greater amount of water.

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because there's for water and also it has more amount then the half full kettle

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It is because the more the water the longer it will take to boil because before the heat gets to other particles of water it will take sometime. The time varies based on the quantity of water...,

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