What determines if something is a liquid gas or solid?

Answer 1

Fundamentally, the temperature and pressure, depending on the substance. Most substances may exist in any one of those three forms under certain conditions of temperature and pressure. For example, water may exist in all three forms simultaneously (ice, liquid, vapour) under very specific conditions of temperature and pressure which are referred to as the "triple point of water".

Answer 2

The space between the molecules/atoms. If they are very far apart, the matter is a gas. If they are not very far apart, the matter is a liquid. If they are close together (and usually vibrating), the matter is a solid.

Answer 3

you can tell whether the element is a liquid or gas by the melting/boiling points if it's greater than 20 degrees Celsius then it will be a solid, if the element's melting point is less than 20 degrees Celsius the element will be a gas. There are only two elements that are liquid at room temperature and they are Mercury (Hg) and Bromine (Br).

Answer 4

The different states (which are solids, liquids and gases) are determined by the amount of energy present in the system. Energy is found in several forms, but kinetic energy is the form that the state of matter takes on, especially when it is changed from one state of matter to another. The various states of matter are always in constant motion. In liquids and gases, the motion known as the Brownian motion occurs. This is where particles move randomly while suspended. Even in solids, the particles continue to move, but is a vibration around a fixed point, and is not as free as the liquids and gases.

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Answer 5

The arrangement of the particles, the distance between them, their forces of attraction, the motion of the particles, its shape, volume, density and compressibility are all the properties that determine the state of a matter.

Answer 6

Solid - Molecules are locked in place and cannot move, and the substances has definite volume and mass and cannot change shape

Liquid - Molecules can slide past one a another, and the substance has definite volume but can change in mass and it can change shape

Gas - Molecules can move freely past one another, the gas does not have definite volume or shape, and it can freely change shape

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Answer 7

The atomic vibration.

The greater it vibrates the loosen the atomic bind.

You change the vibration intensity by adding/subtracting energy on it... for instance heating it up.

Answer 8

Melting point