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Could you continue breaking an ice cube into smaller and smaller pieces of ice?
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∙ 14y ago
Yes, and no. You could keep breaking, and breaking an ice cube, but eventually it would melt.
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How does solid rock break into smaller pieces?
Solid rocks break into smaller pieces because weathering could take bits and pieces of the rock. Then erosion carries the rock to some were else. Finally deposition will drop the rock in that place were the erosion brought it.
What is a way that a sedimentary rock could form then break down over time into smaller pieces and become a sedimentary rock again in another location?
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Do mountain heights grow bigger or get smaller as the earth ages?
The forces creating mountains either continue pushing them upward or stop. Erosion is continually trying to make them shorter. Therefore, mountains could get bigger, or mountains could get smaller. It depends on which force acting upon them is stronger.
What term describes the breakdown of rocks?
If you're talking about a natural process, I think it's decomposition. Breaking down exposed rock into smaller fragments could also be done by physical crushing.
What is the slowest way to dissolve sugar?
Adding sugar to cold water is the absolute slowest way to dissolve the sugar. If you're wanting to dissolve sugar at a very fast rate, add some sugar crystals in a hot beverage.
Can you continue forever to break an ice cube into smaller and smaller pieces or ice?
You should try it. But it might take a while to break it down to one molecule, which is as small as it could be while still being ice (any smaller and you're breaking the water down into hydrogen and oxygen, and you'd no longer have ice. If you kept going after that....well, don't even get me started on quarks and the like!).
What are the ways where diamond can be broken to smaller pieces?
Best practices dictate that if you want any control whatsoever over the size and geometry of the smaller pieces, that you take your diamond to a diamond cutter and pay to have it 'broken' into smaller pieces. If you don't care about the smaller pieces, or the value of the diamond, you could hit the diamond with a hammer and see what happens.
Does breaking an ice cube change the identity of an ice cube?
Ice cubes are not always true cubes to begin with but we call them that anyway. If you were to break one it would just be smaller pieces of ice which depending on your perception could still be called cubes.
How does solid rock break into smaller pieces?
Solid rocks break into smaller pieces because weathering could take bits and pieces of the rock. Then erosion carries the rock to some were else. Finally deposition will drop the rock in that place were the erosion brought it.
How did democritus answer the question could matter be divided into smaller and smaller pieces forever or was there a limit to the a pieces of matter could be divided?
Democritus' response was... There is a limit, if it is to remain in its original form. He concluded that matter can only be divided to its smallest particle... an atom, to retain it's physical characteristic.
If you had a piece of rod 200m long how many smaller pieces of 20.6 cm could you get and how much would be left over?
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How do you make the ice cubes melt faster?
There are a couple thing you could do: * add a heat source (ie. hair dryer or stove) * increase the surface area by breaking it into smaller pieces * add salt for the same reasons they add salt to ice-y roads in the winter
Who gave us the term the atom?
Atom comes from atomic, meaning 'indivisible'. It was previously believed that an atom could not be divided into smaller pieces.
How does the wind change the rock?
Wind is an agent of weathering and erosion. Weathering is the breaking of rock into smaller particles. Wind moves small rock particles against other rock surfaces, weathering them. Wind will also drive water deeper into fissures, which could then freeze, causing further weathering. Wind can also cause greater wave action on shorelines, increasing weathering.
When you hit a piece of graphite and break it into small pieces you have broken chemical bonds?
This is FALSE ! Because you only broke it in pieces and tearing or breaking into pieces is a PHYSICAL CHANGE not a chemical change. ---------------------------- I also consider that breaking graphite is only a physical change. - - - - --------------------- It's true, you break chemical bonds when you break pieces of graphite. Graphite is a macromolecule: it is found in sheets, and within the sheets each carbon atom is bonded to four other carbon atoms. The only way you could possibly get it apart is to break the bonds between atoms.
You can speed up a reaction if you break the solid reactant into smaller pieces what factor does this describe?
When you break up a solid into smaller pieces it dissolves faster when you have big pieces of the solid you have to wait for the substance that is dissolving it ti be picked up by the object that is being dissolved but when the pieces are smaller it dissolves faster because their smaller and the substance dissolving the object get picked up much faster
What is a way that a sedimentary rock could form then break down over time into smaller pieces and become a sedimentary rock again in another location?
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