in one to two sentence explain a similarity and a difference between the particles in liquid water at 100c and the particles in stream at 100c

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A similarity between the particles in liquid water at 100°C and the particles in steam at 100°C is that they both consist of H₂O molecules at the same temperature, moving with high kinetic energy. A key difference is that in liquid water, the molecules are closely packed and interact with each other, while in steam, the molecules are far apart with minimal interaction, existing in a gaseous state.