The temperature at which a liquid turns into vapor under standard atmospheric conditions.
Picture boiling water for pasta. When it reaches its boiling point, it starts producing steam - transitioning from being calm water in your pot into bubbling chaos!
Evaporation: Process by which molecules in a liquid state (like our water before it boils) spontaneously become gaseous (like the steam).
Condensation: The process where gas turns back into a liquid. It's like when the steam from your boiling pasta water cools down and forms droplets on the kitchen window.
Heat of Vaporization: The amount of energy required to change one gram of a substance from a liquid to a gas at constant temperature and pressure, just like turning our calm pot of water into bubbling chaos!
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