Question

A man is cooking two pans of boiling water. Both pans are made of steel, but one pan has a much thicker base than the other pan.

He turns off the gas on the cooker. Explain why the water in the pan with the wider base continues to bubble for longer than the water in the thinner pan.

Answer 1

Answer:

Boiling begins near the source of heat. When the pan bottom becomes hot enough, H2O molecules begin to break their bonds to their fellow molecules, turning from sloshy liquid to wispy gas. The result: hot pockets of water vapor, the long-awaited, boiling-up bubbles.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Isn’t this because the thinner pan has longer walls while the wider pan has more space which leads to the water being in a nice flat surface making the water heat up more while the one containing the small pot takes longer to heat