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Wobbles42last Monday at 7:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

A single word for boiling water would be like the single word "slush" we have for ice in water.

It likely could apply to other liquids in the same mixed state, but would be assumed to refer to water (or solutions or colloidal mixtures primarily consisting of water) in common speech.

Water is extremely common, and has anonymously high heats of crystalization and vaporization, so it is the most common example of a mixed phase system and the only one most people encounter in everyday life.


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DonHopkinstoday at 10:31 AM

Inuktitut / Kalaallisut (Greenlandic):

  qanik -- snow falling
  aput -- snow on the ground
  pukak -- crystalline powder snow (like salt)
  aniuk -- snow used to make water
  maujaq -- deep soft snow you sink into
  piqsirpoq (verb) -- drifting snow / blowing snow
Central Alaskan Yup’ik

  qanuk -- falling snow
  aput -- snow on the ground
  nevluk -- wet snow
  aniu -- snow for drinking water