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When a solid substance gains enough thermal energy, it melts.
When we consider Solutions, say Ice in Water, we see both - simultaneously the melting ice gains thermal energy from the water while the water loses thermal energy to the ice body.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoThat depends on the direction in which it's proceeding.
When the solid becomes vapor, it absorbs energy from its environment.
When the vapor becomes solid, it gives up energy to the environment.
Considering the substance and its environment all together, no energy
is lost or gained. It just gets moved around.
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∙ 13y ago< When a solid melts to become a liquid, this is a change of state in which latent energy is involved, and in fact thermal energy has to be supplied either from the environment or some other source. This is because a liquid contains more latent heat than its corresponding solid state. In the reverse situation, when a liquid solidifies, heat is emitted. Examples are water and ice, or solid and liquid wax.
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∙ 13y agoIt requires energy for evaporation to occur. The same happens in the case of sublimation. The energy is taken out of the evaporating/sublimating substance, and is stored as potential energy (because of the breaking of intermolecular bonds).
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∙ 14y agoIt loses Thermal Energy.
Particle Arrangement: unattached and far away to attached, close and slide
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∙ 12y agoits loses thermal energy...
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∙ 11y agoIt gains thermal energy
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∙ 13y agoHas lost Thermal Energy
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When do most substances lose or gain energy?
Most substances lose or gain energy when their temperature changes.
What causes the particles of a substance to lose thermal energy?
The particles in a substance lose thermal energy as the temperature decreases, because the particles are moving and vibrating less.
Do liquid particles gain energy when they are frozen?
No, liquid particles lose energy when frozen, everything loses energy when frozen and their molecular movement slows down. Their is a state called 0 degrees Kelvin which is the lowest temperature possible. At 0 degrees Kelvin all molecular motion is stopped and all energy is lost. Liquids would gain energy when heated.
When a solid melts does its particles lose its heat energy?
No. They gain.
Does water gain or lose energy as it evaporates to form steam?
It's energy doesn'tchange.
Does gas lose or gain thermal energy in condensation?
When condensation occurs, it is a gain thermal energy.
When condensation occurs does does lose or gain thermal energy?
its loses thermal energy...
When condensation occurs does a gas lose or gain thermal energy?
A gas loses thermal energy during condensation.
Does your body gain or lose thermal energy if your body temperature is 37 degrees Celsius and the temperature around you is 25 degrees Celsius?
You will lose thermal energy.Heat (energy) will always flow from warmer to cooler.
Does your body gain or lose thermal energy if your body temperature is 37 degrees C and the temperature around is 25 degrees C?
Heat will naturally flow from hotter objects to colder objects. If heat flows OUT OF your body, you will LOSE that heat energy (thermal energy).
If your body temperature is 37c and you are sitting in a room which has the temperature of 25c does your body gain or lose thermal energy?
Heat (thermal energy) goes from the warmer thing to the colder thing. So, since your body is warmer than the room, your body loses thermal energy to the room.
How does nuclear lose energy?
thermal energy lost
When compounds gain electrons they lose or gain energy?
Lose
Does a gas lose or gain thermal energy in condensation?
The gas begins to cool down, and lose thermal energy, and moves up in the ladder of the 3 states of matter. Gasses condense into liquids, liquids turn into solids. The higher up you go, the less thermal energy the object has.
How do power stations lose energy?
Heat (thermal energy)
Does freezing lose thermal energy?
yes
When do most substances lose or gain energy?
Most substances lose or gain energy when their temperature changes.
