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Why is boiling water not an example of radiation?

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Boiling water can be a result, but not an example. To heat any body you have 3 main processes, conduction, convection and radiation. The boling water is the result when you heat the water.

Radiation is that the sun radiates (send waves) the water and heat it until boiling point.

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