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C5.1 USING THESE IDEAS (1)
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A and B are ‘snapshots’ of the same substance at two different temperatures: one shows the substance in the liquid state, the other in the gas state.


  
     
A   B


 
Try to use particle ideas to answer these questions:
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Which of A and B shows the sample above the boiling point of the substance?
Are the particles in A more energetic than the particles in B? Explain.  
We can not usually see substances in the gas state. Are the individual particles in A different from those in B?  
Is the ability of particles to hold onto each other weaker in A than in B?  



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c1: gas state
c2: boiling water
c3: boiling point
c4: gases
c5: using ideas
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