In a solid,particles are packed tightly to each other while the gas particles are not packed tightly. So the gas particles can be compressed and can change the volume. Solids cannot be compressed to change the volume.
No, unless it reacted with a gas in the air around it. Melting is a physical change.
The total mass remain unchanged but each piece has its mass.
The salt and the water have both undergone physical changes.
The melting of ice is a change of phase, from solid to liquid, a physical processus. The molecules of water (H2O) remain unchanged during the change of phase.
Water remain water, only the state of matter is changed from liquid to solid.
Because the chemical formula remain the same - liquid water or ice or vapour.
It is a physical change, the chemical form remain unchanged.
Freezing of water is a physical change because it involves a change in state from liquid to solid without altering the chemical composition of water. The molecules in water rearrange to form a crystalline structure in the solid state but remain as H2O molecules.
Melting snowflakes is a physical change, not a chemical change. The water molecules in the snowflake remain the same chemical composition before and after melting, they just change from a solid to a liquid state.
An example of a change that begins and ends with the same type of matter is the process of water changing from a solid (ice) to a liquid (water) and back to a solid (ice). In this process, the water molecules remain the same, just in different states of matter.
Physical changes are changes that only change the appearance of an object, but not the type of matter. For example, if a metal bike rusts the bike will still remain a solid. That is a physical change.
A solid will remain the same volume and shape A liquid will remain the same volume but change shape to its container A gas will expand its volume to fill its container entirely