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The water becomes a refractor.

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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.


The shape of the water molecule H2O?

Well, there is no shape to water. If you have a container the water takes on the shape of the container, but that is not the waters shape, it is the container that the water is in. So even though the water has formed into a shape, it is that containers shape and not the water's shape.


What takes the shape of its container and has no defined shape?

water


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.


Does water have a lopsided shape?

Since water is a liquid, it does not have any definite shape. It takes on the shape of its container.


When did scientists figure out that water takes the shape of a container?

People have known long before the invention of science that water takes the shape of its container.


What causes water to appear on on the outside of a container?

condensation


Why is water call a liquid?

at room temperature, water is considered a liquid because it has a definite volume (it does not expand to fill its container like a gas) but not a definite shape (it takes the shape of its container, as opposed to a solid which keeps its shape regardless of the container it is in).


What happened to the shape of water as you transferred it from one container to another?

the same shape


What state of water does not take on the shape of its container?

Liquid


What will always take the shape and volume of its container?

water. :)


What will always take shape and volume of its container?

water. :)