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Ice, water and vapor are examples of the same matter in three different states. Explain how this is possible?

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  1. Due to bonding of water molecules ( H2O ). In water form they are closely bonded, in ice bit scattered, in vapor it is isolated. Closer the bonds less volume, hence water has standard weight, in ice , it weigh less and flout, in vapour form it looses all weight and evaporates.


  2. They all are the same thing, but change form due to temperature.

  3. Ice(solid), water(liquid) and vapor(gas) are all different forms of a chemical compound H2O (two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen).

    Different states like solid,liquid and gas depend on the energy stored in the compound. The energy is dependent on the temperature. So at lower temperatures (below 100 degree celcius) the compound is solid and is known as ice. At temperature range of 0-100 degree celcius, its in liquid status and at higher temperature it is gas.

  4. water is a liquid   one state of matter

    Ice is water in solid form   another state of matter

    Steam is water changed to a gas   yet another state of matter

    water-ice-steam

    matter-matter-matter

    the same thing but different

  5. Temperature  regulates the states of matter.

    At low temps of 32 degrees Farenhiet and lower  ice forms water condensation into a solid state of a chrystal matrix. At high temp of 100 degrees Farenhiet and higher water evaporates to form water vapor in a gas state. Water is the intermediate state of liquid where the temperature and pressure is between 32-100  degrees Farenhiet.

  6. When you melt the solid it becomes a liquid, then let it ecaporate, and it becomes a gas, then make it really cold and it becomes a liquid again, then freeze the liquid and it becomes a solid!

  7. Water is a molecule that is made up of oxygen and hydrogen. When hydrogen gas burns it is combining with the oxygen in air to form water.

    Water molecules are attracted to each other and will stick together with a certain amount of force. At the same time water molecules jiggle around a bit. The jiggling of molecules is heat. The hotter molecules are the more they jiggle. The cooler molecules are the less they jiggle.

    So you have two things happening. Water molecules are attracted to each other and would like to stick together but because of heat they are also jiggling around.

    If they are pretty cold they only jiggle a little bit and so the jiggling does not disturb the sticking together and water forms ice. In ice the water molecules stick together forming regular patterns that are called crystals. You can think of crystals as kind of like neatly stacked marbles. If the marbles stick together a bit then a stack of marbles would form a large structure like a crystal.

    If you heat up that ice, the water molecules start to jiggle around more and eventually the jiggling gets to be so violent that they will not stay stuck together any more, but they do stick for a moment or two and then bounce away, then stick together again. That is what liquid water is. Water molecules bouncing around quite a bit and only sticking together for moments at a time. This would be like a bucket of marbles. If you vibrate the bucket a bunch the marbles would kind of jump around in the bucket, but not jump clear out. That is what a liquid is.

    Now if you heat up liquid water even more the water molecules will really start jiggling very violently and eventually will start bouncing around so hard that they fly away. That is what water vapor is. Water molecules with so much heat energy that they fly around and pretty much never stick together but just bounce off of each other. If you take the bucket full of marbles and start really smashing it around the marbles will start to fly out, that is like boiling water and turning it into a gas or vapor.

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