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A solid is a collection of tightly packed molecules that are bound together and cannot freely move around. When energy is added (heat for example) the bonds begin to break down allowing the molecules or atoms (depending on whether it's an element or compound) to move more freely, this causes the matter to change state from solid to liquid.
Take water for example, the water molecules are tightly packed when water is cooled to form ice, as it heats the bonds break down forming water. If you heat further you get steam, the molecular bonds breaking down further.
Some things even skip the liquid stage; carbon dioxide as a solid, also known as dry ice goes straight from a solid to a gas at room temperature, this is called sublimation.
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When temperature increases solids change to a?
gas or a liquid
Why can liquid change but solids cannot?
The forces holding the atoms together are weaker in liquids than in solids -Apex
Why all solids do not change from solid to liquid to gas on heating?
because some solids have extreme strong force of attraction
What Solids liquid and gases all have different?
Particle density Source: university chemistry
List of solids which changes its state when heated?
All the solids change the physical state (from solid to liquid or gas, crystallization structure, etc.) or the chemical state by heating.
What does not change shape in different containers?
Solids. (Anything that isn't a liquid or a gas)
What is the change of solids to liquid?
freezing
When temperature increases solids change to a?
gas or a liquid
What way are liquid different from solid?
Solids are rigid.
How can a filter be used to separate a mixture?
it can separate solids from a liquid or different size solids as in a screen
What is it called when solids change to liquids?
The change of state from a solid to a liquid is called melting.
How solids are different from gas and liquid?
Liquids have the form of the containers.
Why can liquid change but solids cannot?
The forces holding the atoms together are weaker in liquids than in solids -Apex
Do all solids dissolve in different liquids?
No,not all solid dissolves in different liquid.
Why all solids do not change from solid to liquid to gas on heating?
because some solids have extreme strong force of attraction
What do you have to do to a liquid to change into a solid?
Usually you freeze liquids so that they harden into solids.
When liquids change states to become solids?
a solid turns into a liquid or the liquid stage when it reaches its melting point.
