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The molecules are far apart. They bounce off of each other and don't stick together, so there is a lot of space between them. When they are squished closer together it just means that the run into each other a little more often. That makes it possible to squish them closer together without much work.
Liquids and solids, on the other hand, have molecules that are close enough to each other that they are already stuck together. The electron shells are interacting with their neighbors all the time. Compressing them requires deforming the electron shells, so it takes a large energy input to do it.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 14y agoThis is due to the gap between molecules in a gas, which are large compared to the molecules themselves.
Solids can't because there is no space between molecules and liquids only have a little space.
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∙ 13y agobecause of its density, (low)
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Full form of cng?
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Is nitrogen a compressed gas?
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