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boiling water isnt necessarily 100c. if youre boiling water, it can be any arbitrary temperature above 100.

thats like going to a geyser pit and saying thats 100c, when it isnt. when you cook and let water come to a boil, the chef doesnt care that its exactly 100c, only that its in the state above 100.

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mypasswordistaco@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If anything it’ll be below 100 due to altitude. Salt water for making pasta boils still at approx 100 deg. C. It takes quite a lot of salt (way more than you would ever want to consume) to meaningfully raise the boiling point.

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__dev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

if youre boiling water, it can be any arbitrary temperature above 100.

That’s not how boiling works. The water heats up to its boiling point where it stops and boils. While boiling the temperature does not increase, it stays exactly at the boiling point. This is called “Latent Heat”, at its boiling point water will absorb heat without increasing in temperature until it has absorbed enough for its phase to change.

There is an exception to this called superheating

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