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What type of substance can be poured and takes the shape of its container?
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"liquids"
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What type of substance can be poured and takes the shape of it container?
"liquids"
What does the word liquid mean in science?
A substance which has no fixed shape, but takes on the shape of its container, and has a fixed volume at a fixed temperature. It is not compressible.
Do liquid have shape?
A liquid has an indefinite shape. It takes the shape of its container.
What takes the shape of a container?
gas and liquid
What State Of Matter Takes The Shape Of It's Container?
Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (with solid, liquid and plasma being the other states). It has the distinction of taking both the shape and the volume of the container that it is in. If you want to include plasma, that too will expand - acting like a gas. So will supercritical fluids which might be considered gases by some definitions, but not by others..
What type of substance can be poured and takes the shape of it container?
"liquids"
What type of substance can be poured and takes the shape of it's container?
"liquids"
What does liquid take the shape of?
Liquids take the shape of their container.
What is a substance that takes the shape of the container?
Substances which take the shape of a container are said to have an "Indefinite Shape" or fluids
What is the shape of a liquid?
A liquid takes the shape of any solid that it is contained within. For example water within a square container will appear square, but water within a triangular container will appear triangular.
A fluid is?
A fluid is any gas or liquid that flows, can be poured, and takes the shape of its container.
Does a liquid have a definite shape and volume at room temperature?
Yes. A liquid has a definite shape and when a liquid is poured into a container, the liquid takes on the shape of the container.
What is defined a fluid?
A substance that is not a solid or gas, takes the shape of its container, has definite volume, but no definite shape.
What does the word liquid mean in science?
A substance which has no fixed shape, but takes on the shape of its container, and has a fixed volume at a fixed temperature. It is not compressible.
What defines a liquid?
Something that takes the shape of the container it is in. E.g. Water takes the shape of the container which it is in.
List properties of a liquid?
A liquid has a definite volume but an indefinite shape. It takes the shape of its container.
Why does a liquid have a fixed shape?
It doesn't! It takes the shape of whatever container you put it in. At least, it takes the shape of the floor of the container.
