Compare a solid liquid and gas?

Answer 1

The difference between solids liquids and gasses is quite simple. A solid, you can see and touch. It will feel solid and unpenatrateable. A liquid is similar to a solid, but very different. You can see a liquid, but if you touch it, you'll penatrate the surface. A gas is waydifferent from the other two. You usually can't see it. On occasion, you will be able to see or smell a gas, but it will never feel solid to the touch. It will feel like air.

Answer 2

Solids like ice cannot be compressed into a smaller space. In the liquid state, materials have a definite size [volume], but no fixed shape. Liquids like water settle to the bottom of their container and take its shape. Liquids cannot be compressed. Gases have no definite shape or size. They expand to fill all parts of their container and can easily be compressed into a smaller piece.also my but stinks

Answer 3

Water, liquid, and gas (and plasma) are nothing more than different levels of molecule attraction.

Solids have the most inter-molecular forces holding them together, which makes it non-fluid. Because of this, solids tend to have no appreciable change of volume or shape.

Liquids have less molecular attraction: molecules are able to 'roll' around each other, giving them no set shape. However, they still generally lack any appreciable change in volume.

Gases have even less molecular attraction still: the molecules will have almost no attraction to each other (for basic kinetic molecular theory, one of the assumptions is no gaseous attraction). Gases have no set shape or volume (the molecules will dissociate and fill up the entirety of the volume of their container).

Lastly, plasmas are gases with so much dissociation that the atoms themselves will be disjointed, ionizing the gas.

despite common belief, heat is not the only way to change from one phase to another. changes in pressure and temperature will also affect the state of matter, as is visible on a substances triple point diagram.

Answer 4

Solids:

• have fixed shape
• have fixed volume
• have atoms that are close and highly attracted to each other
• have atoms that have mainly vibrational kinetic energy

Liquids:

• have a fixed volume
• are not compressible, therefore, density is high like the solid
• take the shape of their container
• atoms are are close and attracted to one another but have some 12% of inter-particular bonds broken
• some transitional and rotational kinetic energy is present but mainly vibrational
• have a boiling and freezing points, vapour pressure, surface tension

Gases:

• have no fixed volume
• low density
• atoms are far apart
• little to no attraction for each other
• take shape of container

Answer 5

solids vs. liquids: solids have more compact molecules and liquid's molecules are more spread out.

liquids vs. gas: liquids have spread out molecules and gas's molecules are so spread out that they spread through the air we breath.

solid vs. gas: solids are the most compact of all of the three states of matter and gases have the most spread out molecules.

Answer 6

Solids: Definite shape and Definite volume

Liquids: Indefinite shape and Definite volume

Gases: Indefinite shape and Indefinite volume

Answer 7

A solid has an independent form.
A liquid has the form of the container.
A gas hasn't a form.

Answer 8

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