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What makes water boil?

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Table salt is sodium chloride: NaCl, a compound of two elements.

Salted water has a higher boiling temperature than unsalted water. So it does not necessarily boil "faster," but boils at a higher temperature, thereby cooking food faster.

In actually fact it takes salt water longer to reach boiling. The mechanism behind all this is that ionic compounds like salt form 'ionic intermediaries' between water molecules which creates a stronger bond.

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Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit at sea level.

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Water boils when the energy of the water molecules increases to the point where the vapor pressure is equal to or exceeds atmospheric pressure.

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The input of heat energy.

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Heat!

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