Steam at 100 degree celsius produces more severe burns than boiling water at the same temperature. Despite this, people take steam baths without any injuries. How is that?
I need this answer for my class IX summer holiday assignment. Please give relevant answers!

Research how steam baths/saunas operate and how the steam is funneled in.

Its homework so we won't give you the specific answers so you can avoid studying... but as Wondergirl says... read up on it and it becomes very easy to understand.

Yes, I have already searched for this answer. My school teacher says that steam gives more severe burns and my father contradicts, if so, how do people take steam baths. Some internet answers say that when we cook in pressure cooker the steam is released along with extreme pressure so that is what makes the burns severe. If we just produce steam it will not give us severe burns.
Is this correct?

Your online search probably isn't being done in a helpful way. You need to research steam alone, and then steam baths alone, and then draw your conclusions.

THINK: Isn't it possible that people use the word 'steam' loosely? My kitchen windows steam up when I boil water. What is the temperature of the steam just above the boiling water, versus the steam on the windows, which isn't really steam at all anymore, it's condensation? You can even look at steam bath product specs, to see what the safety measures they have, to keep people from being burned. All that 'steam' in the bath may not be steam at all, right? If you look closely at a teakettle with a small spout, you don't see the mist for the first inch. Is the invisible part the real steam, and the visible mist all just condensation? You tell us.

What happens to steam under pressure? Does it get hotter, colder or stay the same?

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Originally Posted by ma0641

What happens to steam under pressure? Does it get hotter, colder or stay the same?

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That's easily found by Googling the term.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

That's easily found by Googling the term.

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That was a question for the OP, not asked by me-I know the answer.

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Originally Posted by ma0641

That was a question for the OP, not asked by me-I know the answer.

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Ooooops. Now I know the answer too!