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A substance loses energy both when it freezes and when it heats up.

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When a substances cools it loses what energy to its surrounding?

When a substance cools, it loses thermal energy to its surroundings. This process results in a decrease in the substance's temperature as the thermal energy is transferred to the surrounding environment, usually through conduction, convection, or radiation.


How is energy transferred during freezing?

During freezing, energy is transferred from the substance being frozen to its surroundings. As the substance loses heat energy, its temperature decreases until it reaches the freezing point, at which point it transitions from a liquid to a solid state. This transfer of energy continues until the substance is completely frozen.


When a substance cools it loses what to its surroundings?

Thermal energy


When a substance loses energy to its surrounding environment?

exothermic


When a substance cools it loses?

When a substance cools, it loses heat energy to its surroundings, causing the molecules to slow down and the substance to contract or solidify. This can lead to changes in physical properties such as becoming more rigid or brittle.


When a substance loses or absorbs energy its temperature can change true or false?

True. When a substance loses energy, its temperature can decrease, while when it absorbs energy, its temperature can increase. This is because energy is transferred as heat, which can lead to changes in temperature.


When a substance changes from one state to another it gains or loses?

energy


What does a substance gain or lose when its temperature changes?

The density of the substance becomes higher because of the particles slow down and move closer together when the substance cools.


What causes a substance to cool down?

A substance cools down when it releases heat energy to its surroundings through processes like conduction, convection, and radiation. This can happen when the substance is in contact with a cooler object, when it loses heat to the air or water around it, or when it emits thermal radiation.


When a substance in the gas phase loses enough energy it condenses?

Yes. It gets cold and condenses.


What loses energy?

Energy can be lost through various processes such as friction, heat transfer, sound emission, and radiation. When objects interact, energy can be transferred between them and some of it can be lost in these forms.


How does the temperature of a substance change as it gains or loses heat?

A substance (in this case water) that gains or loses 'sensible' heat will change it's temperature at the rate of 1 deg F per pound of that substance per 1 btu loss or gain.That is to say that 1 pound of water will change 1 deg f as it loses or gains 1 btu of heat energy. That heat required to lose or gain 1 deg f is referred to as sensible heat, whether lost or gained, since it does change the temperature of the substance.However, that substance must gain or lose latent heat during a change of state; as in water changing from liquid to gas (steam). Latent heat affects the substance during it's change of state, and does not change the temperature of the substance during that change of state.Each substance has a specific heat, and so each substance has a different value of btu's required to make a change in their state or temperature.