Why do liquids have a definite shape and a definite volume?

Answer 1

they take the shape of a container because the liquid particles stay together but they still move around.
Liquid is a fluid & fluid can't resist shear stress. they will continuously deform or change its shape even a small amount of shear force act. that is why they acquire the shape of the body in which the poured to come into stable position.

Answer 2

Yes, their volume does change when they are put under pressure, but the change is such a tiny fraction of the volume that it can be neglected for most purposes. The fraction is less than one billionth per pascal, so even a million pascals of pressure will produce a change of only about a thousandth of the original volume.

Answer 3

If one molecule is not firmly connected to the molecules near it, then it moves on its own, responding to gravity, which will bring it to the lowest available level, which turns out to cause the liquid as a whole to take the shape of its container. Liquids are different than gases; the constituent atoms or molecules of a liquid do have an attraction for each other, so they stay close together, but not so much attraction as to form a rigid shape. With a gas there is no connection, so the atoms or molecules move entirely independently of each other.

Answer 4

Gravity pulls equally on all molecules in the container.

Answer 5

Because liquids do not have their own shape of matter.

Answer 6

Liquid molecules move faster than those in a solid and overcome some of the attraction between molecules but still slowly enough to be incompressible.

Answer 7

Because unlike a solid or a gas. Liquids have a definite volume but no definite shape. just look in any sixth grade science book. Its because of the way the Adams are placed.

Answer 8

Liquids do not have definite shape because they form to the container they are placed in.

Answer 9

Liquids don't have a definite shape - they take in the shape of whatever vessel they're contained in.