Can you autists explain the following phenomenon:
If I put water in my stainless pan and place it on a stove under medium fire (I usually do that to get rid of moisture at the bottom after washing it), it begins to heat up, but sometimes the water does not boil. The pan continutes to heat up yet the water is perfectly still, BUT, if I simply shake the pan lightly, the water instantly beings to bubble up. Why does that happen?

You think being intelligent makes you an "autist" which is not even a real disease according to the international medical community. No one owes you their time and effort, especially if you talk down to them.

>>16717994
Getting so upset by harmless bantz on the internet is pretty autistic

>>16717989 (OP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheating

>>16717989 (OP)
look into superheating. but even chatgpt could have answered your question

The fire is on the bottom so that layer is hotter

>>16717989 (OP)
Water is agitated if you buggers it.

>>16717989 (OP)
>why does water boil faster if you break droplets and spread it over a larger surface
we may never know

>>16717989 (OP)
Phase transition occurs at nucleation sites. Like how a cloud doesn't suddenly become liquid and all fall at once, instead the water builds up around a dust particle or something until the drop gets big enough to fall out.

Still water in a smooth container won't boil because there's no place for the gas to build up. It's the reason the boiling behavior happens at all instead of the water just evaporating away when you heat it up.
Agitating the water a bit will create nucleation sites and the process will snowball from there.

Notice how, when your pan starts to simmer, you will see columns of bubbles trailing from certain spots at the bottom of the pan. Those are scratches serving as nucleation sites.

>>16717989 (OP)
>Why
the gods. they are angry at you for wasting resources in such a ludicrous manner.

>>16717989 (OP)
the stainless steel of the pan creates an oxidization layer that generates a thermophotovoltaic pocket around the water molecules. the boiling process only begins when the magnetic field generated by this is disturbed in some way.

>>16718491
cool bait

>>16717989 (OP)
I'd be mad too if I was just vibin' and some troglodyte shook me randomly.