Water vapor is water as a: solid, liquid, or gas?

1 Answer
Jan 25, 2017

Terminology

Explanation:

Gas state is generally a term used to describe the elements in gas phase while Vapour is a term used to describe compounds in their gas phase.

For (e.g)
Nitrogen Gas, NO2 vapour, PH3 vapour, NH3 vapour.

Special cases like synthetic gas etc exist. But these are mixtures of compounds in their corresponding gaseous state.

Hence Water vapour is Water in gaseous state.