Jerel Walker of the fame of Halliday, Resnick ,Walker textbook fame has a superb article on this: https://www.reed.edu/physics/332/pdf/Leidenfrost.pdf
Wikipedia has a reasonable explanation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect#:~:text=The%20Leidenfrost%20effect%20is%20a,the%20liquid%20from%20boiling%20rapidly.
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