they look like small circles which float around
magenta vapout
Violet - blue I2 molecules
they are all over the place. e.g. scattered.
You can not see Gas!!!!!Though there are some gases with colour to see: this one is violet - blue I2
In a gas particles are spread out so much that they are independent. The particles move fast.
At the molecular level iodine gas contains I2 molecules, which if you could see them ( they are too small to be seen using light) and you were able to see the electron density then they would appear as small dumbells. When iodine sublimes the colour of the "gas" is violet this due to the aborption of visible light by the I2 molecule.
Iodine gas is usually described as having an "irritating" odor.
they both sublime, in which the solid particles will change directly into gas.
You can make a model of what the particles look like in a solid. Make two more models for what they look like as a gas and use those for comparisons.
it's called sublimation
Iodine was discovered by the French chemist Barnard Courtois in 1811. Iodine is a bluish-black, shiny solid. Although it is less reactive than the elements above it in group 17 (fluorine, chlorine and bromine) it still forms compounds with many other elements. Iodine is a non-metal. It's boiling point is 457 K (184 oC) and melting point is 386.6 K (113.5 oC). Iodine belongs to group 7A ,the Halogens. Belongs to period 5 in the Periodic table. Iodine might be used in its pure form, but most of the times it is not used as a pure iodine.
Gas of diatomic iodine I2 .