What are the shape and volume properties of a solid?
It has a fixed volume and ordinarily retains its shape.
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What are the shape and volume properties of a solid?
It has a fixed volume and ordinarily retains its shape.
What are the shape and volume properties of a liquid?
It has a fixed volume but flows to take the shape of the part of its container it occupies.
What are the shape and volume properties of a gas?
It flows and spreads to fill its container, so it has neither a fixed shape nor a fixed volume.
How do solids, liquids and gases differ in compressibility?
Solids and liquids are difficult to compress; gases are readily compressed.
What is a change of state?
A transformation between solid, liquid and gas.
What change of state is melting?
Solid to liquid.
What change of state is freezing?
Liquid to solid.
What change of state is vaporisation?
Liquid to gas.
What are the two ways vaporisation can occur?
Evaporation and boiling.
What change of state is condensation?
Gas to liquid.