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Question
Explain the following:
Water is heated generally from below.
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Solution 1
Water is heated generally from below because water itself is a bad conductor of heat and the transfer of heat through convection take place vertically upwards
Solution 2
Water is heated from below because water is heated by process of convection and in process of convection heat always flows in upward direction from downward direction.
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