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Does something that is denser heat up faster than something that is less compact?
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Why does underwater lava differ from surface lava?
The lava itself is not different, it is the environment that is different. Water is much denser than air and has a higher heat capacity, meaning it takes more energy to heat it up. As a result, lava will lose heat to water extremely quickly, and so will cool much faster than it can on land.
Why does the air temperature get warmer quicker than water?
Heat travels faster in water because the molecules are more tightly packed than the molecules in air, allowing more contact with ice and greater rate of heat transfer.
Does water gain heat or lose heat faster than h20?
land loses heat faster than H20
What would happen if an atom heats up?
the faster an atom moves the hotter it is. and like wise the more the heat something the faster the atoms move. Easy way to see this is to put an ice cube in a pan on your stove. As you heat it up the molecules start to move faster, you can see this by the ice melting into water, if you keep heating it you'll see steam which is the water converting into a gas.
When does land and water absorb and lose heat?
It absorbs heat faster
Since salt water is denser than fresh water does swimming in fresh water sap body heat faster?
No.
If something is conductor of heat does it lose heat fast or slow?
If something is a good conductor of heat, it heats up faster and loses heat at a slower rate.
Why is warm water warm and cold water cold?
Warm water is warm because the molcules heat up and make friction they move around much faster when an object is a liquid then a solid. Cold water is in the process of becoming a solid the molecules will slow down and compact to compact molecules need coldness and when something is warming up it is melting and needs heat to melt. duh.
What happens when you apply heat to a solid does it will cause the atoms to move more slowly and become more compact?
On the contrary: At heating all particles move faster and the material becomes less compact: expansion!
What are the atoms doing when something is melting?
They are moving faster to create heat
Why does lands heat faster than water?
Land has compact molecules so only conduction takes place and it is an insulator of heat so the heat remains on the surface whereas water has loosely packed molecule so heat is transferred by convection ths it takes a longer time to heat up.
How do you increase dissolving time?
To make something dissolve faster you heat or agitate it. To decrease it do the opposite.
Does a higher specific heat capacity mean that something will cool down faster?
sure :D
Why do solids heat up faster than liquids?
Solids are more compact than liquids. The particles of a solid are closer together. Since heat is the kinetic force between particles, the closer those particles are the easier it is to excite them.
Why do solids heat up faster than liquids or gases?
Since most of the time we are concerned with heat being transferred via conduction, the denser the material, the easier it is to conduct heat. Except for the rare anomaly (think ice vs liquid water) solids are denser than their corresponding liquid forms. All that is a gross simplification of course. Many liquids heat quite a bit better than solids and convection (which can occur in liquids but not solids) can greatly aid in the speed of "heating up", so the generalization that solids heat up faster than liquids is only a tendency rather than a rule.
What is it when something absorbs heat?
What happens is that the molecules will move faster causing the object's temperature to increase and expand.
What is a good example of insulator?
First, let's understand how heat transfers from one object to another. Heat basically is an atom vibrating very fast. So that energy transfers when one atom hits another atom. That means that The denser the substance is, the faster heat will transfer.This is because the atoms will be more likely to hit other atoms if the substance is denser, because the possibility of an atom hitting another atom is much higher if it does not have lots of space to move.Therefore the best insulator is a vacuum, where there are no atoms to transfer the heat to.
