Does water boil inside the water heater?
Sometimes i heat with propane and other times electric. I notice on electric i will be hanging out and hear what sounds like boiling water. It comes from the water heater. I turn on the water pump and...
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jplante4 wrote:
It's called nucleate boiling. Small steam bubbles form on the heating element surface. The same thing happens on the fuel rods in a nuclear reactor. You don't worry about it until DNB - departure from nucleate boiling.
The boiling point for water at 40 psi is about 265°.
Close....but more like 'Film Boiling'
