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State change from solid directly to gas is called sublimation, for example, dry ice - CO2(s) sublimates into gas CO2(g).

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Does gas come before solid or after solid?

Both! The physical state of a substance can go straight from gas to solid, or can heat from solid to liquid and then to gas. The process a solid undertakes when it goes straight to its gas state from a solid state without first turning liquid is called sublimation.


Do the sublime elements have liquid state?

No. They go straight from solid to gas.


Is it possible for a solid to go straight to a gas?

yes. eg: naphthanol, iodine


A solid can change to gas and a gas can change to solid without becoming liquid by?

Some substances can go straight from solid to gas phase by a process called sublimation. A gas going to a solid is a process known as Deposition.


Can you name a solid that turns straight from a solid into a gas?

Mercury


What is it when a solid goes straight to a gas?

Deposition when passing from gas to solid, sublimes when in the opposite direction.


If we heat a solid it ultimately changes into a liquid?

Not always. Some go straight from solid to gas eg dry ice ... called 'sublimation'.


How does a solid turn straight into a gas?

sublimation!!


How a solid turns straight into a gas?

sublimation!!


Is carbon a liquid at room temperature?

No. Carbon is a solid at room temperature and will sublimate (go from solid straight to gas i.e. no liquid) at 3900 Kelvin.


How liquid sublimates?

liquids don't sublimate, the definition of sublimation is a solid that changes directly into a gas with no liquid phase. an example of this is dry ice, which go's straight from solid phase to gas phase.


When a solid turns straight into a gas it is called?

Sublimation