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Its molecules gain more and more energy from the heat and they start moving more faster. Eventually they gain enough energy to overcome the bonds that hold them togather and become water vapour or steam.

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When you boil water at 100 degrees Celsius, you are breaking the intermolecular bonds between the water molecules, which are hydrogen bonds and van der waals forces (Dispersion or London forces). Once the bonds are broken, they will be moving far apart from each other and forms steam.

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