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LA1
In everyday language
we usually use the word freezing to mean very cold because
we associate it with ice. Here we are using it in the
scientific sense: freezing is not about ‘being
cold’, it is about ‘cooling
below the melting point’.
• In everyday
language we often use phrases like ‘Oxygen is
a gas’. We should say, ‘Oxygen is
in the gas state at room temperature’.
• Solid, liquid and gas are not
three separate types of substance, they are the three
states a sample of any substance could
be in.
The state of a substance depends on its temperature
and on the melting point and boiling point of the substance.
