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Why is the time needed to vaporize the sample of water significantly greater than the time needed to melt the sample?

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Since the entomb sub-atomic powers must be totally broken overcome to end up a gas. The powers essentially should be relaxed when softening happens.
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Significantly more energy is required to vaporize water because the inter molecular forces between molecules are being completely broken

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