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As pentane is boiled, the intermolecular bonds between molecules of pentane are broken. This makes pentane molecules free to move as they please and expand to fill any volume.

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A nonsolid state of matter in which the atoms or molecules are free to move past each other as in a gas or liquid?

Matter only comes in three forms; solid, liquid and gas. There is no other form of matter that allows atoms or molecules to move about freely.


What is the movement of atoms in a liquid during a temperature changes both increases and decreases?

As temperature increases, the atoms will move around more energetically - moving on average faster. Translational speeds increase, rotational speeds of the molecules increase, and the magnitude of vibrations of the atoms about their bonds in molecules increase As temperature decreases, the atoms move around less energetically - moving on average slower. Translational speeds decrease, rotational speeds of the molecules decrease, and the magnitude of vibrations of the atoms about their bonds in molecules decrease


What happens to energy when a liquid turns into gas?

When a substance is changing from liquid to gas, the energy, which is absorbed, causes the atoms (or molecules) to move at a higher rate of speed, so that they are not staying close together, like in the liquid state. So the absorbed energy increases the kinetic energy of the atoms (or molecules).


What is water vapor made out of?

Water vapor is composed of individual water molecules in a gaseous state. These water molecules contain two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom bonded together. When water evaporates, it transitions from a liquid to a gas and becomes water vapor.


What happens to air molecules when air gets warmer?

At increased temperatures, atoms and molecules exhibit more kinetic energy. This energy shows up as "vibration" in the atom or molecule. Those atoms and molecules also move around more in the "situation" they're in. As a liquid or gas, those particles that make it up will move around more within the volume of that liquid or gas. In a solid, the atoms or molecules will "buzz" increasingly as temperature goes up.

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How do molecules at the surface of a liquid enter the vapor phase?

When we add energy to a liquid, the place where the energy is absorbed is in the vibration of the links between the atoms of a molecule. At first, the atoms of the molecule draw apart from their peers, but eventually, the vibration becomes sufficient to overcome the surface tension of the liquid, and the molecule breaks free. The hottest molecules evaporate first.


What happens to the atoms in water when water boils?

The atoms speed up building up kenetic energy which forces them apart and that is what turns the liquid into a gas


What happens to the particles during evaporation?

the state of matter changes from liquid to gas, so the molecules spread out.


What happens to the atoms or molecules of a substance when it boils?

the atoms and molecules will vibrate, causing the substance to heat up (friction causes heat, the molecules and atoms will rub together, causing friction). I hope this helped!!!!!n_n when a substance reaches its boiling point naturally the intermolecular force becomes weak and the substance gets converted from one form to another..


What element's atoms form diatomic molecules as a liquid?

Bromine is the only element that is liquid and forms diatomic molecules Br2. Mercury is also an element and is liquid but is monoatomic.


When liquid becomes a solid it had to?

When liquid becomes a solid it has to loose temperature. Because when a substance transforms into solid from liquid the atoms of that substance has to come closer to form the solid form.


What happens to the atoms when a substance changes state from a liquid to a gas?

It depends on the substance. If it is a molecular compound made of molecules (groupings of atoms covalently bonded to each other), then going from a liquid to a gas does nothing to the atoms. All that happens is that the intermolecular forces between the molecules are broken and the molecules are separated from each other, but the atoms in the molecule remain bonded to each other the same way that they were in the liquid. In situations where you do not have molecules (just atoms attracted or bonded to each other) then vaporization does separate the atoms from each other. Examples might be vaporizing a metal like mercury or a noble gas like xenon.what happens to atoms when liquid changes to gas


what happens to an atoms charge when it loses its electrons?

It becomes positive.


What happens to the molecular motion of a liquid as it freezes?

As the temperature of a liquid substance lowers, the molecules and atoms making up the substance slow down their movement. The also pack closer together, making the substance more rigid, turning it into a solid.


Why is water still cold when you pour hot water to the cold water?

when the molecules of the A-b powered atoms combine with the hot water the liquid becomes one atomic atom which then represents the liquid which makes the water stay at its cold temperature which it will stay at until the molecules are solidified by the surrounding temperature.


What happens the atoms when a substance change state from a liquid to gas?

Vaporization is what happens when a liquid is changed to a gas. When a gas is changed to a liquid it is called condensation.


Is liquid bromine a diatomic molecule?

Liquid bromine is a monoatomic molecule as it is a liquid