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Answered 2009-04-21 16:04:19
Gas can be compressed because the particles are far apart and have enough space to move into, solid and liquids particles have no space to move into! Hope this helps!
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Why is gas easier to compress than a liquid or a gas?
A gas is easier to compress than a liquid because of the space between molecules. In a gas, the molecules are spaced greater apart, while in a liquid the molecules are closer.
What is harder to compress gas liquid or solid?
The molecules of a solid are the most tightly packed than those of either gas or liquid making it the hardest of the three to compress. Gas has the most space between molecules and is therefore the easiest to compress.
Explain why it is easier to compress gases than a solid or liquid?
In layman's terms, a substance is heated to transform it from a solid, to a liquid to a gas. When this is done, the molecules get more excited and move. This leaves more spaces between the molecules and breaks the bond that exists in the solid form.
Is Carbon dioxide easier to compress than water?
Yes. Actually water is a fairly unique substance as it does not compress at all, and expands when it turns to a solid while all other substances known to man compress when turned to a solid.
Why are gases easier to compress than solids or liquid?
Because they won't resist as much because in one volume of,gas there are less molecules per unit volume than in the same volume of a liquid or solid. There are less molecules in a gas to push back.
How do you explain when a state of matter is said to have definite volume?
A liquid or solid will not take up a larger space than the space it occupies; even if more space is freely available.On the other hand, both a liquid and a solid are incompressible, for most practical purposes; that is, you can't compress it to use less space than the space it uses, either.A liquid or solid will not take up a larger space than the space it occupies; even if more space is freely available.On the other hand, both a liquid and a solid are incompressible, for most practical purposes; that is, you can't compress it to use less space than the space it uses, either.A liquid or solid will not take up a larger space than the space it occupies; even if more space is freely available.On the other hand, both a liquid and a solid are incompressible, for most practical purposes; that is, you can't compress it to use less space than the space it uses, either.A liquid or solid will not take up a larger space than the space it occupies; even if more space is freely available.On the other hand, both a liquid and a solid are incompressible, for most practical purposes; that is, you can't compress it to use less space than the space it uses, either.
Explain why liquids and gases are easier to compress compared to solids?
Liquids aren't easier to compress than solids.
Properties of a liquid?
Liquids can flow, their particles can move about more than solid particles, you can't compress them, and they are quite dense.
Why is it easier to compress a liquid than a gas?
It's not.Liquids are, for all intents and purposes, incompressible (there's an entire field of engineering ... hydraulics ... based on this fact). Gases are easily compressible.
Why gases are easier to compress than solids or liquids are?
the lower the density of a compound, the easier it will be to compress it. gases usually have lower density than liquids or solids.
Which physical state of matter cannot be easily compressed?
Solids and liquids are difficult compress. Gases, however, are easy; they respond to changes in temperature and volume.
Why is it easier to lift the body in liquid then in solid?
i think it's because liquids have less density than solids, and the body is lighter in liquid.
Why does liquid move faster than solid?
because you can pour a liquid but not a solid so therefore a liquid moves faster than a solid to get to the object it is required to get to.
If you place a solid in a liquid will ether sink?
That depends on the relative densities of the solid and the liquid. If the solid is denser than the liquid, the solid will sink. If the liquid is denser, the solid will float.
Are gas molecules further apart than solid molecules and liquid molecules?
Generally, the molecules in gases are further apart than molecules of the same substance in either liquid or solid state. However, note the existence of a critical temperature for each substance. Above the critical temperature, no liquid or solid phase can exist, but it would be theoretically possible to compress a supercritical substance so that it would have closer molecules than some liquid form of the same substance.
How is plasma differ from solids?
plasma is more of a liquid than a solid plasma is more of a liquid than a solid
Why is ice less dense as a solid than as a liquid?
explain why ice is less dense as a solid than as a liquid
Which cold solid is less dense than the liquid when it melts?
Ice is a solid less dense than the liquid
Are you solid liquid or gas?
Mostly liquid, accounting for water. Other than that, solid.
Why does it take an enormous amount of pressure to compress a liquid?
It takes more pressure to compress a liquid than a gas because the molecules in a liquid are already much closer together than the molecules in a gas. To get them even closer requires a great deal of pressure.
What is the state of interparticle distance inside a solid liquid and gas?
The interparticle distance is greater in a gas than in a liquid, and greater in a liquid than in a solid.
How do the density of a solid liquid and gas contrast?
For most substances, the solid phase is more dense than the liquid and gas phases. The liquid phase is less dense than the solid phase but more dense than the gas phase, and the gas phase is less dense than either the solid or liquid phases. Water is an exception. Its solid phase (ice) is less dense than the liquid phase.
Why is it more difficult to compress a liquid then a gas?
Because the molecules of a liquid are more close than those of a gas.
What causes object of the same volume to sink rather than float?
A solid object in contact with a liquid in which the solid does not dissolve will sink if the density of the solid is greater than the density of the liquid and will float if the density of the solid is lower than the density of the liquid.
Is sugar solid gas or liquid?
It can be either solid or liquid. When they make sugar, it's liquid. Some of it goes out in liquid form, and there it's called sugar syrup. Manufacturers like sugar syrup better than granulated sugar because it dissolves much easier. A lot of it goes out in solid form, either granulated or powdered.
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