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03/13/2013 5:44 PM

apart from power generation, what r other electrical uses of steam.

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03/13/2013 5:57 PM

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03/13/2013 6:00 PM

The surreptitious opening of intercepted postal correspondence.

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03/13/2013 6:02 PM

"Electrical use".

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03/14/2013 4:46 AM

The surreptitious opening of intercepted postal correspondence e-mail?

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03/15/2013 12:15 PM

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03/14/2013 9:15 AM

"Electrical use".

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03/13/2013 8:01 PM

Cleaning motors (with the proper precautions and attention to details).

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03/13/2013 8:39 PM

Steam can be used to initiate an electrical signal from a steam sensor....

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The question is difficult to answer because the your restriction essentially cuts out most other uses with the exception being the one example you provided.

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03/13/2013 9:18 PM

'Steam' (water vapor) can be pumped into a room to reduce static electricity.

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03/14/2013 10:36 AM

As a conducter to ease initiating an arc???

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03/15/2013 12:26 PM

That's actually a somewhat arcane reference, since the steam is not actually used to create electricity in any sense any more than water or wind are. Steam turns the turbine the same as the two others. The turbine turns the generator. (These are generalities.)

You could just as easily ask "apart from power generation, what are the other electrical uses of wind?" or "apart from power generation, what are the other electrical uses of water?".

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