Vapor quality

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Steam Engines use water vapor to drive pistons which effects work through movement. The quality of steam can be quantitatively described. Vapor quality is a quantitative description of the usefulness of a vapor to do work.

x_v=\frac{v_m}{l_m + v_m}

where vm is the vapor mass and lm is the liquid mass.

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