Properties of Solids, Liquids, and Gases

Key Questions

• What are physical properties of liquids?

  All liquids show the following characteristics:

  1. Liquids are almost incompressible. In liquids molecules are pretty close to each other. The molecules does not have lot of space between them. The molecules can not squeezed closer to one another.

  2. Liquids have fixed volume but no fixed shape.They have fixed volume but they do not have fixed or definite shape. If you take 100 ml of water, pour water in a cup, it will take the shape of the cup. Now pour the liquid from cup to a bottle, the liquid has changed its shape and now it has taken the shape of bottle.

  3. Liquids flow from higher to lower level.

  4. Liquids have their boiling points above room temperature, under normal conditions. The liquids on heating slowly changes to vapor or gaseous phase. This process is called boiling.

  Manish Bhardwaj · 181 · Mar 16 2014

• What are physical properties of liquids?
• What are some examples of properties of solids?
• What are some examples of properties of liquids?
• How do properties of halogens differ from noble gases?
• How are atoms arranged in metals?
• How are the particles in a crystalline solid arranged?
• What properties of liquids are measurable?
• How are atoms arranged in minerals?
• Which has a bigger volume solid, liquid or gas?
• What type of substance doesn't have a consistent volume: liquid, solid, or gas?
• What substance has a larger volume as a solid than as a liquid?
• Does density change when mass changes for a liquid that has the same volume?
• How are shape and volume used to classify solids, liquids, and gases?
• Why does a gas have no definite shape and no definite volume?
• What is a plasma?
• What properties of liquids are responsible for layering?
• What properties of solids and liquids are the same?
• Why is it important to understand the properties of gases?
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• What is the difference between crystalline and amorphous solids?
• Which compound has a melting point of approx #134^@#C or #135^@#C? I don't know whether the melting points taken by me in the lab are correct. Is there any way to find if the M.P is correct?
• If rubberbands are solid then how can they stretch ?
• How do you measure the volume of a solid?
• Can you list five fuel gases used in oxyfuel gas welding or cutting?
• In a titration, NaOH was added to a burette. The initial reading was 1.2 ml. At the end of the titration, the final reading was 24.8 ml. What was the volume of NaOH that was added?
• Question #cebbe
• Why mercury has its meniscus upward ??
• What is the difference between the movement of particles in liquids and the movement of particles in gases?
• Why do liquids and gases differ in density and the ability to be compressed?
• Why is liquid nitrogen so cold?
• Question #14972
• How would you describe the physical properties of the three states of matter?
• How can the ionization of water be represented?
• Question #e23ab
• Question #bfd89
• What weighs more, a nail or a rusted nail ?
• Why are solid objects not considered to be fluids?
• Is water a conductor or an insulator?
• Water is an unusual compound because it exists naturally on Earth in three states: solid, liquid, and gas. In which are the water molecules farthest apart?
• Question #e0507
• What type of crystalline solid is a diamond?
• What type of substance can conduct electricity in the liquid phase but not in the solid phase?
• Which particles are moving faster, the particles in a mug of hot cocoa or the particles in a glass of cold chocolate milk?
• A hazardous chemical is leaking from a tank truck. Rescue workers need to evacuate people who live near the accident. Why are more people likely to be affected if the chemical is a gas, rather than a liquid?
• How can we collect ammonia gas by water displacement?
• Why are crisps sealed under a nitrogen atmosphere?
• To keep the "fizz" in cartooned beverages after they have been opened, should you store them in a refrigerator or in a cabinet?
• If the coolant in a refrigerator was not compressed back into a liquid after if flowed through the refrigerator, what would happen?
• Why does fog form dry ice?
• Do all the molecules or atoms in a liquid have about the same speed, or much different speeds?
• Can a tank of oxygen gas ever be half empty?
• Does vapour pressure decrease with increasing ambient pressure?
• Why is radon gas dangerous at high levels?
• What factors influence the use of iron and steel and tool-making and structure-building materials in modern civilizations?
• Question #719a9
• What products are obtained when potassium carbonate is treated with nitric acid?
• Question #be373
• What is the usual physical state of an element?
• When the volume _______ at constant ________ the density increases?
• Why do warm gases/liquids rise and cool gases/liquids fall?
• Question #c7238
• Can changes in volume be negative in chemical reactions or ever?
• What happens to atoms in matter as the temperature decreases?
• What structural units make up ionic solids?
• You stir a cup of hot chocolate with a spoon. Why does the spoon keep its shape in the drink?
• Is solid water more or less dense than liquid water? Why?
• What is a solute that would give a water solution whose density is greater than #1.6*g*cm^-3#?
• What type of property is ductility?
• What does it mean if a solid is malleable?
• What kind of solid often has the highest melting points?
• What are examples of gas?
• What are some examples of how gases are different from solids and liquids?
• What are examples of gases to liquids?
• What are examples of gases, liquids, and solids?
• What are some examples of natural gas?
• What are the properties of liquids?
• What are the properties of solids?
• Why do warm sodas fizz more than cold sodas when opened?
• A sample of water has a fixed volume and shape. What state is it in?
• What process allows you to smell perfume at a distance from the source?
• What are two categories used to classify properties of matter?
• What refers to the decrease in the freezing point of a pure liquid when another substance is dissolved in the liquid?
• What is the volume of 25 ml of water?
• How would you define diffusion in terms of the particles of a gas?
• The ratio ofthe volume of milk to that of milk coffee in a cup of cappuccino is 2 : 5. How would you find the volume of the coffee in a cup of cappuccino if 150 mL of milk is used?
• When a liquid will not mix in any proportions with another liquid what is it termed?
• Four different liquid substances (fresh water, oil, mercury, blood) of equal volumes are placed in one transparent rectangular container. The mixture formed distinct layers. How will the layers be arranged from top to bottom?
• Particles have an orderly arrangement in which type of solid?
• How would you relate the volume of a container (in cm3) to the volume of liquid it contains (in mL)?
• Why does ice float instead of sink?
• What results from gas particles no having a strong attraction to one another?
• When a gas is collected in an upturned graduated cylinder in water, to what will the pressure in the cylinder when the measurement is taken is equal?
• Which gases will effuse the most rapidly?
• What are five substances that will sink on water?
• Compared to most other substances, a great deal of heat is needed to raise the temperature of by a given amount. What trait of water allows this to take place?
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• What properties can be observed without chemically changing matter?
• Under the same conditions of temperature and pressure, three different samples of the same uniform substance will have the same what?
• How is a gas defined?
• Why do only the surface of lakes freeze?
• Question #ee192
• Would a solid piece of lead float in liquid lead?
• Will ice float in gasoline?
• Question #cd578
• Why is carbon dioxide commonly used in fire extinguishers?
• Which property do liquids and gases have that solids do not have?
• What property do only solids have?
• What properties do all solids, liquids, and gases have?
• What ions do strontium and calcium metal commonly form?
• At 25 C, #F_2# is a gas but #I_2# is a solid. What is most likely the case of this?
• Do gases have definite or indefinite shapes?
• Are gasses able to be compressed or expanded?
• Do gases diffuse uniformly through a container to form homogeneous mixtures?
• Under what conditions would one mole of methane gas, #CH_4#, occupy the smallest volume?
• Considering how solids act when they are heated and cooled, why do you think they put flexible connections in the road on a bridge?
• How would you describe the particle motion of a cold liquid?
• The particles in liquid A have a stronger attraction to each other than the particles in liquid B. lf both liquids are at the same temperature, which liquid has a higher viscosity?
• Are the best conductors are usually solids, liquids, or gases?
• A scientist places 25 ml of a yellow substance into a 50-mL container. The substance quickly fills the entire container. Is it a solid, liquid, or gas?
• What happens to water molecules when water is heated from 90°C to 110°C?
• Ice is iess dense than water, which allows it to float on liquid water. Why does this happen?
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• Why are some properties of diamond different from those of graphite?
• Does solid NaCl conduct? Why or why not?
• What are ideal gasses?
• What are the three different physical states in which water can be found?
• A small quantity of gas is let into a large evacuated chamber. i) How much of the chamber gets filled with the gas? ii) What property of the gas helps it to do so?
• Why do liquids contract when cooled?
• How would you determine what gas has molecules with the greatest average molecular speed at certain temperature?
• If you break or cut a solid, it is still a solid?
• What has more energy: a solid or liquid?
• What is an example of a poisonous gas?
• How do properties of the physical states of matter differ?
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• What properties are true for ideal gases but not of real gases?
• Given the following, how do you explain why these two gases do not share the same velocity speed under these conditions? What variable must change in order to increase the average velocity of the molecules in either cylinder?
• A liquid takes the shape of its container, but why doesn't a liquid expand to fill the container completely?
• Dr. Boltzmann wants to find the average energy of motion of the particles within a block of steel. What property of the steel is Dr. Boltzmann trying to find?
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• What are inactive gases?
• How would you describe the molecular motion and arrangement of a solid, liquid and gas?
• Does a liquid with a high viscosity flows more slowly or faster than a liquid with a low viscosity at the same temperature?
• How do the properties of gases make a helium balloon behave the way it does?
• What is a molecular solid?
• Which is the state of matter that has a definite shape and definite volume?
• Can the shape of a liquid be changed?
• Do particles in a solid move?
• Do changes in temperature and pressure affect gas behavior? If so, how?
• What is the solubility of methane, ethane, and propane in water?
• Question #a0bdb
• Why does a solid have a fixed volume?
• What is a solid with several faces?
• Can calcium chloride be a gas?
• What gas causes sparkling wines, soft-drinks, and bottled lagers to effervesce? #A.# #"carbon monoxide"#; #B.# #"dioxygen"#; #C.# #"dinitrogen"#; #D.# #"carbon dioxide."#
• What are examples of substances with high viscosity?
• Why do liquids and gases take the shape of their containers?
• As the temperature of a gas increases, what happens to the particles of the gas?
• Which expands most for increases in temperature: solids, liquids, or gases?
• How would you describe the movement of atoms in a solid? liquid? gas?
• What are five properties of gases?
• An ice cube is dropped into a a glass of water. Describe the motion of the ice cube. Why does it move this way?
• Would equal volumes of two different substances have the same or different masses?
• Why is a gas easier to compress than a liquid or a solid?
• Why are gases compressible?
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• What is the mass of any amount of a solid, liquid, or gas relative to its volume called?
• What is true of inert gases?
• Are inert gases joined in pairs to form diatomic molecules?
• What solids are the best heat conductors?
• How do we define sublimation and boiling?
• How do molecules move as a solid, liquid, and gas?
• What causes gas molecules to spread through air?
• What causes bread dough to rise?
• Which diagram represents oxygen gas? Why?
• How is flow rate related to viscosity?
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• Why does volume of a balloon filled with air increase as its temperature the increases? (Assume constant pressure.)?
• Why does ice float? How is this important to the thermal conditions on Earth? What are the differences between a solution and a mixture?
• Question #b70ed
• Why do we fill automobile tyres with compressed air, rather than compressed nitrogen?
• I read in a book- "a fluid is a system of particles loosely held together by their own cohesive forces or by the restraining forces exerted by the walls of a container"... I cannot understand the latter part (restraining...........container), Please help?
• A student determines the volume, density, and boiling point of three colorless liquids and lists them in the table below. Could any of the liquids be the same substance?
• Why can gases be compressed more easily than solids?
• With respect to a given solvent what do we mean by solubility?
• How does the average kinetic energy of a system change when a liquid freezes?
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• What is the difference between flexibility and elasticity?
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• Which of the following is considered a nonbonding atomic solid? A. Ca B. Ne C. K D. Cu E. I2
• What are the steps to recognize this liquid substance?
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• What is the colour of iodine?
• Why are inert gases fairly unreactive?
• Are gases denser than liquids and solids?
• What are two examples of intensive properties?
• How does molar conductivity relate to the salinity of a solution?
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• In what region of the phase diagram would a substance certainly be a liquid? #a)# Past the triple point temperature #b)# Any spot past the melting point #c)# Between the melting point and critical temperature #d)# Between the melting and boiling points