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A material must gain energy both before and during melting.

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Q: When a solid melts do its particles gain or lose heat energy?
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When a solid melts does its particles lose its heat energy?

No. They gain.


When ice melts what happens to the particles of solid water?

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How does liquid becomes solid?

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Does it gain or lose energy when a solid melts?

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Do molecules gain or lose energy from melting?

When matter melts (changes from a solid to a liquid state), its molecules move faster, meaning they are gaining energy.


How does matter go from a solid to a liquid?

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Molecular motion of a gas?

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When the particles of a solid gain enough kinetic energy to break their ordered arrangement and slip past one another what happens to the solid?

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What do the particles within a solid gain on heating?

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When you the particles do this to any substances the particles gain Energy?

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