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Which state of matter takes the shape of its container?
liquid
A liquid takes that shape of its container. If something is in a liquid state of matter, it will have a definite volume, but an indefinite shape.
Which substance takes the shape of and fills the volume of any container into which it is placed?
A gas fills its container, taking both the shape and the volume of the container. Liquids and gases are called fluids because they can be made to flow, or move.
Does liquid and gas take the shape of the container?
Three states of matter exist – solid, liquid, and gas. Solids have a definite shape and volume. Liquids have a definite volume, but take the shape of the container. Gases have no definite shape or volume.
What is shape of the container?
This is what’s called ‘taking the shape of the container’. People say that liquids take the shape of their containers because they are stuck together enough to not go flying off like gases but not so tightly that they stay in a stiff shape like solids do.
Which state of matter will not take the shape of its container?
Gases
Gases have the following characteristics: No definite shape (takes the shape of its container) No definite volume. Particles move in random motion with little or no attraction to each other.
When a substance changes from a liquid to a gas it is?
Boiling and Evaporation: Evaporation is the change of a substance from a liquid to a gas. Boiling is the change of a liquid to a vapor, or gas, throughout the liquid.
What change represents sublimation?
Answer: solid to gas. Explanation: sublimation is an change of solid state directly to the gaseous state without changing into liquid state.
What takes a shape of a container?
Solid matter is composed of tightly packed particles. A solid will retain its shape; the particles are not free to move around. Liquid matter is made of more loosely packed particles. It will take the shape of its container.
What particles follow the shape of its container?
Solids have a definite shape and volume. Liquids have a definite volume, but take the shape of their container. Gases have no definite shape or volume.
What takes the shape of a container?
Why is it possible to fill the liquid into containers with different shapes?
The attraction between the particles in a liquid keeps the volume of the liquid constant. The movement of the particles causes the liquid to be variable in shape. Liquids will flow and fill the lowest portion of a container, taking on the shape of the container but not changing in volume.
Can a substance be compressed but take up the shape of the container?
Takes the shape of the container means the substance is a fluid. So,as you know fluid may be a liquid or gas,so it can be both. But again another condition given that A can not be compressed. Gases can be compressed up to a limit. But liquids can not be compressed so easily.
Why does a liquid fill up a container?
And if its density is constant, its volume is also constant. And thus a liquid will fill a container up to its (the liquid’s) intrinsic volume.
How are water molecules taking the shape of the container?
You can think of it as if all the water molecules are sliding around across and over each other all the time. Just like anything else, when gravity pulls the water molecules downwards, they will fall. But if they’re in a container, the container will keep them from spreading out completely. This is what’s called ‘taking the shape of the container’.