What are inside the air bubbles on the surface of boiling water?

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(a) What is inside boiling water's bubbles?
(b) Is the boiling of water a chemical or physical change?

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You take a sample of water that is at room temperature and in contact with air and put it under a vacuum. Right away, you see bubbles leave the water, but after a little while, the bubbles stop. As you keep applying the vacuum, more bubbles appear. A friend tells you that the first bubbles were water vapor, and the low pressure had reduced the boiling point of water, causing the water to boil. Another friend tells you that the first bubbles were gas molecules from the air (oxygen, nitrogen, and so forth) that were dissolved in the water. Which friend is mostly likely to be correct? What, then, is responsible for the second batch of bubbles?