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Hi, the other day I was boiling some water, and i was wondering in the begining of the boiling, you can see the bottom of the pan making little bubbles. In order to make a bubble under water, that bubble must somehow find a way to some oxygen right? because it is all the way at the bottom of the pan, how and where does it get that oxygen? If that is how it is really formed, and what exactly do you call that process? Thank you for your time.
Normal water has oxygen in it 1-8 mg/L. But the bubble you saw was not oxygen. What happens when water gets to 100C? It start turning into water vapor (gas). Water vapor is a gas. Since the bottom of the pan is the first to get that hot, the vapor forms in the bottom and the water vapor forms the bubbles. There will be some bubbles of O2 and CO2, but you really can't see them.
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