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How can shape and volume be used to classify materials?
How are shape and volume used to classify solids, liquids, and gases? Materials can be classified ad solids, liquids, or gases based on whether their shape and volumes are definite or variable. Solids have a definite volume and shape because particles in a solid vibrate around in fixe locations.
How are liquids and gases similar in shape and volume?
Liquids and gases are similar in both shape and volume because they both have its shape determined by its surroundings. Particles in a liquid are close together, but still have a slight movement. Particles in a gas, are very free. They have very large spaces between them and can move around in all directions.
How did you classify solid liquid and gas?
Solid is the state in which matter maintains a fixed volume and shape, liquid is the state in which matter adapts to the shape of its container but varies only slightly in volume, and gas is the state in which matter expands to occupy the volume and shape of its container.
What is the shape and volume of a solid?
A solid has a definite shape and a definite volume. The particles that make up a solid are packed very closely together. Each particle is tightly fixed in one position and can only vibrate in place. In many solids, the particles form a regular, repeating pattern that creates crystals.
How do you classify gases?
Classification of Gases
- oxidizers.
- inert gases.
- flammable gases.
What type of volume is solid?
definite volume
A solid has definite volume and shape, a liquid has a definite volume but no definite shape, and a gas has neither a definite volume nor shape.
What are 3 characteristics of gases?
Gases have three characteristic properties: (1) they are easy to compress, (2) they expand to fill their containers, and (3) they occupy far more space than the liquids or solids from which they form.