But awwww BB looks so cute and innocent.

Of course much of the confusion comes with the difference between technical usage of the language and colloquial useage.

Ok ‘water vapour’ is water in it’s gas state, which is a colourless gas of course

Used in a technical sense ‘steam’ is also water vapour.

But of course colloquially steam is used to refer to the condensed water we can see from a kettle etc. I do it just as much as anyone else. i don’t think it’s a problem to have different meanings, but understanding that is, you wouldn’t get very far trying to run a steam engine on condensed water vapour.

Mist, well in this context it is just droplets of condensed water suspended in the air, so calling it steam is fine dpending on which meaning you are thinking of

When in science mode I tend to stick to water vapour and liquid water – an emphasising that the the mist we see is just condensed water.

Yeah, I’ve looked at those Electronics kits, but I think that SB would get a bit more from them when a bit older – maybe 8 or so?

I think that we will probably branch out into using some wires, bulbs etc. for making up some circuits.

We still struggle with C remembering the difference between steam and smoke let alone water vapour. And now I’ve looked them up I have confused myself with steam, water vapour and mist (which is what I had been telling her was steam!) so a laymans explanation would be helpful for me too!

We’re still umming about the Electronics Wizard kit as I think we are more likely to do it if whe gets a package in the post regularly rather than a box of bits that will sit with all the other boxes never being fully utilised. But it is incredibly expensive.